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. Jonathan Sacks Read Quote
There’s always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope. Jonathan Sacks Read Quote
The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety. Jonathan Sacks Read Quote
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. Jonathan Sacks Read Quote
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent. Jonathan Sacks Read Quote
Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives. Jonathan Sacks Read Quote
I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct. Jonathan Sacks Read Quote
People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism – even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn’t always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media. Jonathan Sacks Read Quote
Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families. Jonathan Sacks Read Quote
