“To defend a country, you need an army, but to defend a civilization, you need education...” NeedsCountryCivilizationArmy Author:Jonathan Sacks
“Anti-Semitism is best understood as a virus. It has no logic. Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were poor; because they were capitalists and because they were communists; because they held tenaciously to an ancient faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans, believing nothing. Hate needs no logic. It is a sickness of the soul.” NeedsBelieveSoulHatePoorRichUnderstoodLogicAncientJewHatedSicknessCommunistCapitalistVirusesAnti Semitism Author:Jonathan Sacks
“In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.” PeopleNeedsPlayFacesSafeRelateUncertaintyEcologyStride Author:Jonathan Sacks
“Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.” NeedsKindGovernmentTurnsIndividualCitizensResponsibleAgentsChange AgentFeckless Author:Jonathan Sacks
“We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.” NeedsIdeasHomeTogetherCommonWorking TogetherCommon Good Author:Jonathan Sacks
“Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.” IfsWayNeedsSoulReligiousSpaceBreakMediaBreatheRitualChaptersPausesEmployersReligious Rituals Author:Jonathan Sacks
“If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.” IfsNeedsYearsKindMayMeanGivenLeaderTeacherDeserveAncientProminenceRediscovery Author:Jonathan Sacks
“Freedom... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less” LoveLifeNeedsHappinessSuccessAttitudeFamilyShare Author:Jonathan Sacks
“We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust is that we share what we have with those who have less. So, if you don't give to people in need, you can hardly call yourself a Jew. Even the most unbelieving Jew knows that.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsGivingBelieveShareConditionsJewNeed YouEntrusting Author:Jonathan Sacks
