Isaac Leib Peretz: Quotes about people

Isaac Leib Peretz was Yiddish language author and playwright. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Vegn Geshichte, 1890. Alle Verk, xii. 35.

“It is not only individuals—peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Der Dichter, 1910. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 325.

“The ancient Greeks and Romans tell of a golden age in the past…. Our Messiah alone belongs to the future. He still has to make his appearance, and not solely for the benefit of his own people. The whole world must be judged and redeemed.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Der Dichter, 1910. Alle Verk, x. 11; S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 310.

“We are more than a people…. We are of a pure blood.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Verk, edited by Kletzkin, xi. 277.

“[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Idishe Bibliotek, i. Pref., 1890. Alle Verk, xii. 7.

“In the hands of the Jew, the reddest of all flags has been placed forcibly, and he has been told: "Go, go on and on, with all the liberators, with all fighters for a better tomorrow, with all destroyers of Sodoms. But never may you rest with them…. Pay everywhere the bloodiest costs of liberation, but be unnamed in all emancipation proclamations, or be rarely and scarcely mentioned."… The people cursed and blessed to be the last of the redeemed, to be eternally bleeding, the highest soaring expression of the divine in life.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

The Day, 1906. Alle Verk, xii. 319. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 18.

“One God, one Law, one people, and one land.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Der Dichter, 1910. Alle Verk, x. 21.

“Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Taanis Gedanken, 1896. Alle Verk, xii. 77.