Philistine Quotes

“You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say?

Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now

“A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“O Jews!!
When you were in exile
When you could not bear any country in the world
When you were wandering in the deserts
We were still
the rulers of Palestine.
The coin was still ours.. .!!”
― Ginkgo Gulzar-Middle East Issues

“All you ever care about is money. That's all that matters to you! The only thing you understand is money, what a thing is worth in money.”
― Elizabeth Jolley, The Well

“The end of Israel is certain, it is written in our holy books.”
― Sheikh Gulzar-Gaza to IRAN

“Trump of Serving Zionist Interests Over US People”
― US-Jews