194 Quotes by Jonathan Sacks

Weapons win wars, but it takes ideas to win the peace.

Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life – on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state – must be cast in the language of human rights.

When everything is available, every lifestyle on offer, when all you have is freedom, but nothing to guide you in that freedom, “it’s not so much that you lose the thread of the meaning of your life, you have trouble even staying focused on the question.

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion’s imminent demise.

We have no idea where the world is going, except that it’s going there very fast.