Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks, Ktis a British rabbi, philosopher and scholar of Judaism...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth8 March 1948
envy people deeds
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
believe law democracy
Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.
goal fine-words development
Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.
hate believe soul
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.
love family happiness
Freedom... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less
taken rights holocaust
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.
giving nations
Giving is what makes a nation great.
crush blessing tasks
The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.
real space people
Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.
share made
Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.
perfect wealth-creation economy
The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.
thinking opposites salary
While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.
home ideas working-together
We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
mean together
Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.