Israel Zangwill

“America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!”

“The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.”

“In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”

“Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.”

“To be a Zionist it is not necessary to be a madman, but it helps.”

“Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.”

“Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan-spoiled.”

“All my life I have been trying to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”

“It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.”

“Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, integrity, and love are the only real religion.”

“The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.”

“If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.”

“A man who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.”