“If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.”
Act I, scene 2, 96, line 176.
Eunuchus
Original: (la) si istuc crederem/sincere dici, quidvis possem perpeti.
“I have already indicated that I believe antisemitism to be essentially a neurosis, but of course it has its rationalisations, which are sincerely believed in and are partly true. The rationalisation put forward by the common man is that the Jew is an exploiter.”
Source: Antisemitism in Britain (1945)
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Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) English theologian
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.287
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
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“I strongly believe that antisemitism and Jewish chauvinism can only be fought simultaneously.”
Israel Shahak (1933–2001) Israeli academic
Jewish History, Jewish Religion (1994)
“If he believes time has run its course,
A man is a sad thing too.”
Primo Levi book Collected Poems
"January 17, 1946"
Collected Poems (1984)
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst
Credo (1965)
Context: I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and without illusion. The knowledge and awareness of the freeing alternatives can reawaken in an individual all his hidden energies and put him on the path to choosing respect for "life" instead of for "death."
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Source: 1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927), Ch. 8
“I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Young India (4 December 1924)
1920s
Context: I do not believe as the friend seems to do that an individual may gain spiritually and those who surround him suffer. I believe in advaita [nonduality], I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives. Therefore I believe that if one man gains spiritually, the whole world gains with him and if one man falls, the whole world falls to that extent.
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to François Adriaan van der Kemp (16 February 1809)
1800s
Context: I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. If I were an atheist of the other sect, who believe or pretend to believe that all is ordered by chance, I should believe that chance had ordered the Jews to preserve and propagate to all mankind the doctrine of a supreme, intelligent, wise, almighty sovereign of the universe, which I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization.