Logo
Quote by Jonathan Sacks
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruis

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good… There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness. – Jonathan Sacks

Other quotes by Jonathan Sacks

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that. – Jonathan Sacks

Category:
Future
Author
Jonathan Sacks
Read Quote

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression. – Jonathan Sacks

Category:
Freedom
Author
Jonathan Sacks
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Religion
category

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again. – Mary Augusta Ward

Category:
Religion

Most men would kill the truth if truth would kill their religion. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays

Category:
Religion

I care not much for a mans religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Religion

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts to the second, the Epistles to the third, the Revelation. – Philip Schaff

Category:
Religion

Random Quotes

I dont feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldnt do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched. – Kevin Costner

Category:
War

Most photographers work best alone, myself included. – Elliott Erwitt

Category:
alone

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. – George Washington

Category:
Freedom

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Category:
Truth