Israel Zangwill

“Everything changes but change.”

“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.”

“The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets o...”

“No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.”

“America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!”

“No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.”

“Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.”