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Theodore Bikel

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

— Theodore Bikel soul

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

— Theodore Bikel art

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

— Theodore Bikel need

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

— Theodore Bikel war

'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

— Theodore Bikel men

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 power

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

— Theodore Bikel desire

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.

— Theodore Bikel desire

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

— Theodore Bikel knowledge

I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.

— Theodore Bikel right

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

— Theodore Bikel read

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

— Theodore Bikel wonder

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

— Theodore Bikel art

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

— Theodore Bikel culture

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

— Theodore Bikel art

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 fear

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 hope

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

— Theodore Bikel life

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

— Theodore Bikel

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

— Theodore Bikel family

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.

— Theodore Bikel war

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

— Theodore Bikel wish

It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'

— Theodore Bikel sad

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

— Theodore Bikel men

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

— Theodore Bikel you

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