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Quote by Maurice Samuel

“We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear down. It is true only in a relative sense. We are not iconoclasts deliberately: we are not enemies of your institutions simply because of the dislike between us. We are a homeless mass seeking satisfaction for our constructive instincts. And in your institutions we cannot find satisfaction.”

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Maurice Samuel

Maurice Samuel was an American novelist born on February 8, 1895, and died on May 4, 1972. His works are known for their profound psychological insights and critical reflections on social issues. more

“A century of partial tolerance gave us Jews access to your world. In that period the great attempt was made, by advance guards of reconciliation, to bring our two worlds together. It was a century of failure. We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers forever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will forever destroy because we need a world of our own, a God-world, which it is not in your nature to build”

World Needs Made Two Together Forever Century Periods Demand Jew Access Tolerance Reconciliation Destroyers Two Worlds

Author:Maurice Samuel

“If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.”

Ifs Political Turns Loses Conditions Objectives Fraternity

Book:Ill Fares the Land

Source: Ill Fares the Land

“Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.”

People Imagine Ideology Alternatives Collectives Inability

Book:The Memory Chalet

Source: The Memory Chalet

“Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.”