"Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion’s imminent demise."
― Jonathan Sacks
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Religion
More From Jonathan Sacks
- "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."
- "Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it’s more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race."
- "Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear."
More In Religion
- "First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat."― Huston Smith
- "When Hegel later became a man of influence’ he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion."― Walter Kaufmann
- "I didn’t want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion."― Julian Schnabel