Shocking Sayings

The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.

I Shall Kill You Without Shedding Your Blood.

Come and sip from the cup of destruction.

All who surrender will be spared; whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated.

If you are not a soldier, you should be a slave.

A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them.

I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death.

The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has.

By the Splendour of God, I will not be swayed!

I have taken my oath to God, and I will keep it.

No man in England should have land or lordship unless he had a charter from me.

The whole world knows that I am a King, and a King's word is his bond.

He who fears to be conquered is sure of defeat.

Anyone who attributes corporeality to the divinity is a heretic who has no share in the world to come.

The following have no share in the world to come, but are cut off, and perish, and receive their punishment for all time for their great sin: the minim, the apiḳoresim, they that deny the belief in the Torah, they that deny the belief in resurrection…

The following three classes are called 'apiḳoresim': (1) he who says there was no prophecy nor was there any wisdom that came from God and which was attained by the heart of man; (2) he who denies the prophetic power of Moses our master; (3) he who s…

He who casts off the yoke [of the Law], and he who severs the Abrahamic covenant; he who interprets the Torah against the halakic tradition, and he who pronounces in full the Ineffable Name—all these have no share in the world to come.

if the woman claims she cannot live with her husband and have intimate relations with him because he is disgusting or loathsome to her, her claim is accepted without question and a divorce is immediately granted, although she loses the money of her k…

Maimonides goes so far as to say that the get is still valid even if the court must force him with lashes until he says he is prepared to give the get.

any man who believes in the truth of wizardry is a fool, lacking in understanding, and is in the same class as women and children, whose intellects are incomplete.