A. C. Cuza (Alexandru Constantin Cuza, 1857–1933) was a Romanian political figure and historian known for his nationalist and conservative views. Born in Bârlad, Romania, Cuza was an influential advocate of Romanian nationalism and a prominent supporter of traditional values and the unification of Romanian territories.
He is best known for his role in promoting the idea of Romanian nationalism and his involvement in the political movements of the time. Cuza was a key figure in the cultural and political life of Romania, contributing to the development of Romanian national identity and historical scholarship.
A. C. Cuza Quotes
“Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.”
— A. C. Cuza
“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different… Jews almost everywhere form a special society… Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling…”
— A. C. Cuza
“And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.”
— A. C. Cuza
“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause—the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”
— A. C. Cuza
“A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with its own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.”
— A. C. Cuza
“As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliché, ‘with hatred and savagery’—naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives—according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.”
— A. C. Cuza
“I am an instigator of the national energies.”
— A. C. Cuza
“The science of anti-Semitism has as its object Judaism as a social problem, being thus, necessarily, the synthesis of all sciences that can contribute to its solution.”
— A. C. Cuza
“The duty of universities is toward their nation, for which they must prepare leaders in all fields and these must be necessarily ethnically native. For it is intolerable that a nation educate for itself alien leaders in its universities.”
— A. C. Cuza
