You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition. Theodore Bikel Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 1
You learn more from the flops than you do from the hits. Theodore Bikel Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
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 Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
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 Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
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 Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. Theodore Bikel Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel. Theodore Bikel Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist. Theodore Bikel Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
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 Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general. Theodore Bikel Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know? Theodore Bikel Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out. Theodore Bikel Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
I always sang, I always acted, I always played. Theodore Bikel Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. Theodore Bikel Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. Theodore Bikel Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts. Theodore Bikel Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent. Theodore Bikel Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
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 Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
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 Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor. Theodore Bikel Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go. Theodore Bikel Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing. Theodore Bikel Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0
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 Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0