Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

“As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.”
―Isaac Bashevis Singer

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As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

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“The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.”
―Isaac Bashevis Singer

Source/Notes:
The New York Times (26 November 1978)

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“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.”
―Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Variant: "I am a vegetarian for the sake of health — the health of the chicken!" - From: "Isaac Bashevis Singer: conversations" (University Press of Mississippi, 1992), p. 29 - ISBN: 9780878055890

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“Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet — whom Plato banned from his Republic — may rise up to save us all.”
―Isaac Bashevis Singer

Source/Notes:
Nobel lecture (1978)

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Isaac Bashevis Singer

Born: November 21, 1902

Died: July 24, 1991 (aged 88)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Bio: Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born, Jewish-American author. The Polish form of his birth name was Izaak Zynger and he used his mother's first name in an initial pseudonym, Izaak Baszewis, which he later expanded to the form under which he is now known. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He won two U.S.

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“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.”

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