Quaite Middle East Quotes & Sayings

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both. — Georg Brandes

It is difficult to understand the behavior of most German Protestants in the first Nazi years unless one is aware of two things: their history and the influence of Martin Luther.* The great founder of Protestantism was both a passionate anti-Semite and a ferocious believer in absolute obedience to political authority. He wanted Germany rid of the Jews and when they were sent away he advised that they be deprived of "all their cash and jewels and silver and gold" and, furthermore, "that their synagogues or schools be set on fire, that their houses be broken up and destroyed ... and they be put under a roof or stable, like the gypsies ... in misery and captivity as they incessantly lament and complain to God about us" - advice that was literally followed four centuries later by Hitler, Goering and Himmler. — William L. Shirer

All men are Jews, though few men know it. — Bernard Malamud

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen. — Alex Winter

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs. — George Eliot

Look at the attention the Godfather's getting! Kick my leg, J.R.; kick me in the leg! — Jerry Lawler

It is our duty to seek to acquire the art of being cheerful. It will hold in check the demons of despair and stifle the power of discouragement and hopelessness. — David O. McKay