Famous quotes containing the words jewish, national and/or committee:
“It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class.... I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.”
—Ruth Benedict (18871948)
“The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a year less than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)