Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it.
George SteinerIf, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.
George SteinerThe Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland.
George Steiner