85 Quotes by Theodore Bikel

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.

'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.

I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.