Shocking Sayings

women may not be appointed to any type of public leadership position in the Jewish community.

A person should study the written Torah first, and then read this [book], and thereby know the entire oral Torah, so that he will not need to read any other book in between them.

As for Gentiles with whom we are not at war… their death must not be caused, but it is forbidden to save them if they are at the point of death; if, for example, one of them is seen falling into the sea, he should not be rescued, for it is written: '…

their [the Turks and the blacks] nature is like the nature of mute animals, and according to my opinion they are not on the level of human beings.

Every attribute that is found in the books of the deity, may He be exalted, is therefore an attribute of His action and not an attribute of His essence.

Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their men to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

for well he knew a woman has no beard; hed felt a thing all rough and longish-haired.

and Nicholas right in the arse he got.

he pricked her hard and deep, like one gone mad.

Tell me also to what purpose or end the genitals have been made?

Now, good men, God forgive you your trespass, and keep you from the Sin of avarice! Mine holy pardons will save you, if you do give me gold or silver, or else brooches, spoons or rings

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives.

He who is accustomed to this Sin of Gluttony may no Sin withstand. He must be in bondage to all vices, for it is in the Devil's hoard where he hides himself and takes his rest.

I have been made victorious with terror.

I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.'

I looked into Paradise and saw that the majority of its people were the poor, and I looked into Hell and saw that the majority of its people were women.

No nation will prosper that entrusts its affairs to a woman.

The best women are those who are fertile and loving. The worst women are those who are barren and hateful.

If you see a woman, and she appeals to you, then go to your wife and have intercourse with her, for that will repel what you feel.