Israel Zangwill

Quote: Everything changes but change. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan -- spoiled. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: It takes two men to make a brother. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: No... the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you -- he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: It takes two men to make one brother. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: New York is the great stone desert. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: American is the crucible of God. It is the melting pot where all
the races are fusing and reforming . . . these are the fires of
God you've come to. . . . Into the crucible with you all. God is
making the American.
[Israel Zangwill]

Quote: Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness,
the only real religion.
[Israel Zangwill]

Quote: You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you
should correct them. When you find none, you should try even
harder.
[Israel Zangwill]

Quote: A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. -Israel Zangwill. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries... - Melting Pot, The. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: Until mankind heeds the message on the Hebrew trumpet blown, and the faith of the whole world's people is the faith that is our own. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. [Israel Zangwill]

Quote: Everything changes but change [Israel Zangwill]

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