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Theodore Bikel

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Theodore Bikel is the kind of thinker who lets the words do the talking — and they talk volumes. With equal ease, Theodore Bikel moved between Beauty and Art, finding connections others missed. Discover 20 of Theodore Bikel's most memorable quotes, ranging across Beauty, Art, Age, Travel, and Strength. A line that stays with you: "No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language."

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

— Theodore Bikel

Equality

All Quotes by Theodore Bikel

“You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.”

— Theodore Bikel

Travel

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

— Theodore Bikel

Age

“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

“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

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

— Theodore Bikel

Art

“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

Death

“As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.”

— Theodore Bikel

Government

“In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.”

— Theodore Bikel

Peace

“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

Age

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

— Theodore Bikel

Equality

“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

“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

“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

Beauty

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

— Theodore Bikel

Knowledge

“On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.”

— Theodore Bikel

Funny

“I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.”

— Theodore Bikel

Beauty