Author: Theodore Bikel

Quotes

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

- Theodore Bikel

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

- Theodore Bikel

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

- Theodore Bikel

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

- Theodore Bikel

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

- Theodore Bikel

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

- Theodore Bikel

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

- Theodore Bikel

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

- Theodore Bikel

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

- Theodore Bikel

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