In their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most ex… - Isaac Bashevis Singer

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In their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

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About Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער or יצחק בת־שבֿעס זינגער; pseudonym: Icek Hersz Zynger;[1] born 21 November 1902 as Icek Zynger, died 24 July 1991) was a Polish-American writer of short stories and novels in Yiddish; he used his mother's name in devising his penname "Bashevis" (son of Bathsheba). He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.

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Native Name: יצחק זינגער
Alternative Names: Isaac Bashevis-Singer Yitsḥoḳ Basheṿis Yitsḥaḳ Basheṿis-Zinger Yitsḥaḳ Basheṿis- Zinger I. B. Singer Itzhak Bashevis Singer Yitsḥoḳ Bashevis-Zinger Isaac Bashevis Yitsḥaḳ Basheṿis Yitsḥoḳ Bashevis- Zinger Isaac Singer
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Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea that the Universe is a physical or chemical accident, a result of blind evolution. Even though I learned to recognize the lies, the clichés and the idolatries of the human mind, I still cling to some truths which I think all of us might accept some day. There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God — a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.

Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.

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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I'm a grown up, they call me a writer.

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