50 Bari Weiss Quotes for You to Enjoy

Bari Weiss

American Editor

Born: 1984

Believe People Think Women World You

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Paris. Toulouse. Malmo. Copenhagen. Brussels. Berlin. For most people, they are lovely cities where you might happily take a holiday. But for the world's Jews, they are something else, too. They are place names of hate. Bari Weiss

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While racists see themselves as proudly punching down, anti-Semites perceive themselves as punching up. Bari Weiss

Down Punching See Perceive Proudly Up While Themselves Racists

For reasons historic, aesthetic, and political, we Jews are most attuned to the anti-Semitism of the far Right - and we find the most sympathy among our progressive allies when these are our attackers. Bari Weiss

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I thought I would come to Australia and learn to surf. Instead, I learned to walk. Bari Weiss

Walk Thought Would Instead Come Learn Learned Surf Australia

Many older people I know are focused on the past. When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles and obstacles of their increasing age. Bari Weiss

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Race walking is hard. Trying to do it while maintaining a conversation is much harder. Bari Weiss

Conversation Maintaining Walking Trying While Race Much Hard Harder

While there are perfectly legitimate criticisms that one can make of Israel or the actions of its government - and I have never been shy about making them - those criticisms cross the line into anti-Semitism when they ascribe evil, almost supernatural powers to Israel in a manner that replicates classic anti-Semitic slanders. Bari Weiss

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One of the casualties of Israel becoming an increasingly partisan issue has been American Jews themselves, who vote overwhelmingly Democratic and who see Israel's rightward turn as betraying fundamental liberal values. Bari Weiss

It is a strange experience to have another person spit on you. Bari Weiss

You Strange Experience Spit Another Person

I'm not someone who from a young age imagined myself being a writer or had dreams of being a novelist or anything like that, but I was always very driven by ideas and by values, and that is the reason I got into journalism. Bari Weiss

I am used to being politically homeless, which I think is a very, very Jewish position. Bari Weiss

Think Am Very Politically Being Which Used Homeless Jewish Position

I think 'Les Demoiselles D'Avignon' is one of the most transfixing paintings of all time. And it was made by a monster of a man. Bari Weiss

Time Man Made Think Monster All-Time Most Les Paintings

Reasonable people can debate whether or not social experiments like a Day of Absence are enlightening. Bari Weiss

Day People Debate Absence Like Experiments Whether Social Reasonable Enlightening

Conservatives are often fond of La Rochefoucauld's famous aphorism that 'Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue,' and so tend to downplay hypocrisy as a sin. But in the marketplace of ideas they champion, hypocrisy may yet turn out to be the deadliest - or costliest - of sins. Bari Weiss

Donald Trump's election was a watershed moment. Even those like me, who had previously pulled levers for candidates of both parties, felt that Mr. Trump had not only violated all sense of common decency, but, alarmingly, that he seemed to have no idea that there even existed such an unspoken code of civility and dignity. Bari Weiss

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The Women's March moved me. Bari Weiss

Me Women Moved March

Mr. Trump had campaigned on attacking the weakest and most vulnerable in our society. Bari Weiss

Society Our Weakest Attacking Had Most Vulnerable Trump

China may brutalize Buddhists in Tibet and Muslims in Xinjiang while denying basic rights to the rest of its 1.3 billion citizens, but 'woke' activists pushing intersectionality keep mum on all that. Bari Weiss

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Outrage is something Donald Trump typically has in no short supply. Bari Weiss

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Since Britain handed over jurisdiction of its former colony to China 20 years ago, the city has operated under the notion of 'one country, two systems.' That increasingly appears to be an empty slogan. Bari Weiss

I believe that babies should be vaccinated pretty much as soon as they exit the womb. Bari Weiss

Believe Babies Pretty Soon Womb Exit Much Should

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