The Non-Jewish Jew and Other Essays Quotes

“For a subject people, independent statehood is a vital necessity and an advance; but once such a people has reached the stage of independence nothing can be more retrograde for it than to fix its mind on that stage and to refuse to look beyond it. The nationalism of a sovereign people cannot claim for itself the justification claimed by the nationalism of an oppressed people.”
― Isaac Deutscher, The Non-Jewish Jew and Other Essays