| "America is God’s Crucible, the great Melting Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming! Here you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups with your fifty languages and histories . . . into the crucible with you all! God is making the American . . . the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the crucible, I tell you—he will be the fusion of all the races." Israel Zangwill Sayings |
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| "Oh, for the simple life,/For tents and starry skies!" Israel Zangwill Quotes |
| "You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder." Israel Zangwill Remarks |
| A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. Israel Zangwill |
| America is God's crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!... The real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races. Israel Zangwill |
| In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera Israel Zangwill Sayings |
| It takes two men to make one brother. Israel Zangwill |
| Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled Israel Zangwill Quotations |
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| Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion. Israel Zangwill |
