Skip to content

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan — spoiled.

— Israel Zangwill Children of the Ghetto (1892)

Another quote →

Topics

Christianity

More quotes by Israel Zangwill

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

Children of the Ghetto (1892)

It is only little men and creatures low in the scale of organization who never change.

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

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

Oh, for the simple life,
For tents and starry skies!

All Israel Zangwill quotes →

You may also like

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan (1923)

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Israel Zangwill (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.