Jonathan Sacks Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Remember, Forget, Dangerous

• We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Believe, Indulge In, Challenges

• Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Play, Long, Mind

  "Islam and us" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2003.

• 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

  Crush, Blessing, Tasks

  "Rediscovering Religious Values in the Market Economy" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

• ISIS is a terrorist entity whose barbarities have been condemned by all those who value our common humanity. In the current political climate, when hate crimes are rising and political rhetoric is increasingly divisive, this is all the more shocking.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Hate, Isis, Common Humanity

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Christian, Spiritual, Healing

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