In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.
We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.
Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.
Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.
In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!
[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.