I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

- Theodore Bikel

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to…

- Theodore Bikel

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

- Theodore Bikel

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happene…

- Theodore Bikel

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

- Theodore Bikel

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

- Theodore Bikel

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

- Theodore Bikel

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

- Theodore Bikel

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 acc…

- Theodore Bikel