The Power of Ideas Quotes

“the one thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.”
― Jonathan Sacks, The Power of Ideas: Words of Faith and Wisdom

“find it extraordinary that in an age in which globalisation is forcing us together, all too often, across the globe, faith is driving us apart. We should be fighting environmental destruction, political oppression, poverty and disease, not fighting one another, least of all in the name of God whose image we all bear. That is why I believe the time has now come, even in Britain, to bring a message of religious tolerance into the public square. For if the voice of reconciliation does not speak, the voices of extremism will. The Age of Greed 3 October 2008 ‘The real test of a society is not the absence of crises, but whether we come out of them cynical and disillusioned, or strengthened by our rededication to high ideals.”
― Jonathan Sacks, The Power of Ideas: Words of Faith and Wisdom