“Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
William Howard Taft
“I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring”
William Archer
“There is no more anti-Semitism on the state level, as we saw in Soviet times, but instead we have a lot of freedom for anti-Semitic groups in Russia, and the incident yesterday was one of its manifestations.”
Yitzhak Kogan
“Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.”
Daniel Barenboim
“Over the years from some of the columnists, no question, it has been so anti-Semitic it's unbelievable.”
Ken Harrelson
“Anti-Semitic? What is anti-Semitic about it? ...There is no logic to this claim.”
“Wagner was a monster. He was anti-Semitic on Mondays and vegetarian on Tuesdays. On Wednesday he was in favor of annexing Newfoundland, Thursday he wanted to sink Venice and Friday he wanted to blow up the pope.”
Tony Palmer