Top 134 Quotes & Sayings by Jonathan Sacks - Page 3

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

To defend a country, you need an army, but to defend a civilization, you need education...

ISIS is a terrorist entity whose barbarities have been condemned by all those who value our common humanity. In the current political climate, when hate crimes are rising and political rhetoric is increasingly divisive, this is all the more shocking.

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But within them, you can say many different sentences and write many different books.

A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.

It is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a curse.

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbours.

Freedom... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less

That this occurred at the launch of the report into the Labour Party's recent troubles with antisemitism shows how deep the sickness is in parts of left of British politics today.

Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.

Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin

Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers, they should be looking at the internal sources of employee dissatisfaction rather than trying to cover that up with this legal action.