Top 63 Quotes by Theodore Bikel

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

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

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

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.