Quotes from Leon Uris

Belfast was born as the mongoloid child of British imperialism.

que todos los daneses leales procederán igual».

I never got over the horror of watching their graduation ceremonies, performed before their parents. After a demonstration of 'military prowess' and personal courage the ceremony ended with their biting off the heads of snakes. As the blood dripped down their chins, they roasted the dead animals for a victory feast. Other schools had the children strangle puppies and drink their blood.

A combination of many stupidities can end up being a worthy man if he learns from his stupidities.

Francia fue el primer país en europeo que concedió a los judíos la plenitud de derechos de ciudadanía, sin discriminación ninguna.

Cayó como caen los valientes, Impertérrito hasta el fin, Y hoy la muerte le ha reunido Con los viejos héroes de la antigua Erin

We once again man the barricades -- alone. Berated by our smug, so-called allies, of the Western Democracies. Islam is going to turn this world inside out before this century is out and you'd better have enough guts to deal with it.

Unfortunately, reprisal seemed to be the only language that the Arabs understood, the only thing that might stop them.

El mayor problema de Birkenau era la dificultad para desembarazarse de los cadáveres. Al principio los llevaban directamente desde las cámaras de gas a grandes zanjas donde los cubrían con cal. Pero el hedor era insoportable.

But once you allow yourself to think that there are some people, because of their race, their color, or religion, who are really not human beings you have established a justification for imposing every sort of humiliation on them.

France was the first country in Europe to grant Jews the full rights of citizenship without qualification. Their position was further enhanced by Napoleon, according to whom Judaism was a religion, not a nationality. So long as French Jews regarded it only as a religion and gave their loyalty to France, they ought to be granted full

One night above all other nights is the most important for a Jew you and that is the religious holiday of Passover. The Passover is celebrated in memory of the deliverance from the bondage of Egypt. The Egyptian's, the original oppressors, had become the symbol of all the oppressors of all the Jews throughout the ages.

Su profesión le había enseñado a esconder el miedo, a mostrarse impasible ante las tragedias. El lado negro del mundo, sus penalidades y su miseria formaban parte del trabajo cotidiano.

It was said that a crow flying over Berlin would have to carry his own provisions.

They were the weary down there, the craggy-faced, knobby, leather-handed toilers rehearsing their own demise, yielding in pitiful weakness to the scythe of mystery kept poised a lifetime at their jugulars … too simple and too tired to protest … too frightened to seek the truth … succumbed in silence, for without it … what was there left to believe?

Shoshanna, el primer kibutz de Palestina, parecía ser la solución que desde tantísimo tiempo aguardaba el sionismo.

Aquel pueblo avanzaba con una decisión que arrastraba consigo todas las simpatías del mundo civilizado. La joven Israel se alzaba como un faro para la humanidad, demostrando cuánto se podía conseguir con fuerza de voluntad y amor.

Mediterranean.

The good Lord has been wonderful to our republic. He has given us the wisdom to fight wars with no thought of personal gain. But this time we cannot pack up and go home. We have come of age. We have inherited both the power and the responsibility of the world without seeking or wishing it.

Children are instinctive about knowing who their friends are. – Dr. Lieberman

Karen se hundió en un pesar todavía más profundo que antes. El espíritu intrépido que la había mantenido en pie desapareció. Sintió que la maldición de haber nacido judía la había conducido a la locura de abandonar Dinamarca.

If you're Irish enough, you can go an entire lifetime filled with conversations that never took place, like those

I love Tom. I'll never feel that way again.

Parnell's star had zenithed. The aloof man who spoke loudest by listening, the unemotional exterior which wept within at injustice, the shy man whose moral strength was powerfully evident, the Protestant who fought the Catholic cause, the Anglo-ascendancy landowner who led the landless, the Cambridge-educated genius who alone was able to rally and control an effective conglomeration of wild Irishmen. Charles Stewart Parnell, indeed, was the uncrowned king of Ireland.