Leon Uris Quotes

Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that o...

Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of d...

About Author

Leon Marcus Uris (August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003) was an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books, including Exodus (published in 1958) and Trinity (published in 1976).
Uris was a co-founder of the Writers and Artists for Peace in the Middle East, a pro-Israel group.

Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that o...

Both of them had a sad desperation about them. Lord, André thought, why do young lovers dote on misery? How nice to be an aging lover and when you walk into the room meet someone who is happy and love...

Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?

Huxley: "Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstein, and an Ayershire?"Bryce: "No."Huxley: "Seabags Brown does."Bryce: "I don't see what that has to d...

Anything to declare? the customs inspector said.Two pound of uncut heroin and a manual of pornographic art, Mark answered, looking about for Kity. All Americans are comedians, the inspector thought, a...

Huxley: Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstein, and an Ayershire?Bryce: No.Huxley: Seabags Brown does.Bryce: I don't see what that has to do...Hux...

«Mira desde los cielos y ve cómo nos hemos convertido en el desprecio y la burla de las naciones; somos contados como ganado y llevados al matadero para ser degollados y destruidos o para ser golpeado...

Believed

Polish prisoner Dr. Wladislaw Dering performed castrations and ovariectomies ordered by his German masters as part of their insane program to find a way to sterilize the entire Jewish race.

Our land has grown a magnificent liberty tree and its fruit is the richest ideal of the human soul. But, we cannot go on forever merely eating the fruit of the liberty tree or it will die. We must beg...

They lingered over cups of ersatz coffee.

This was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day going to make a decent novelist out of me. If you are out here and cannot close off the loves and hates...

¡Así nació la Declaración Balfour, la Carta Magna del pueblo judío! Once La policía de Yemal Pachá encontró a Sarah Ben Canaan en el kibutz de Shoshanna, dos semanas antes de que se cumpliera el plazo...

Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness...

So anyhow, all your goddamn poets will write tired sonnets about the good old days when the noblemen kicked the piss out of the peasants and the peasants kicked the piss out of the Jews.

And that is where I have failed you, Ari. You see, I would have crawled to your mother a million times. I would crawl to her because I need her in order to live. She is my strength. God help me, Ari,...

Truth is what people want to believe and nothing more.

For an instant he was able to cross the line and understand this strange loyalty of Jew to Jew. Those Jews who lived free in England were only there due to some quirk of fate instead of Aushwitz and e...