{"author":"Jonathan Sacks","author_id":"Jonathan+Sacks","total_quotes":44,"quotes":[{"text":"The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.","author":"Jonathan Sacks","tags":["education","children","today "],"id":1376,"author_id":"Jonathan+Sacks"},{"text":"We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.","author":"Jonathan Sacks","tags":["courage","fear","best "],"id":2394,"author_id":"Jonathan+Sacks"},{"text":"Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.","author":"Jonathan Sacks","tags":["technology","world","help "],"id":13039,"author_id":"Jonathan+Sacks"},{"text":"We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, “I want it all and I want it now.” A whole culture is being infantilised.","author":"Jonathan Sacks","tags":["consumerism","desire","education","parenting"],"id":16494,"author_id":"Jonathan+Sacks"},{"text":"Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.","author":"Jonathan Sacks","tags":["time","deep","god "],"id":23159,"author_id":"Jonathan+Sacks"},{"text":"We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust is that we share what we have with those who have less. So, if you don't give to people in need, you can hardly call yourself a Jew. Even the most unbelieving Jew knows that.","author":"Jonathan Sacks","tags":["god","believe","yourself "],"id":42273,"author_id":"Jonathan+Sacks"},{"text":"Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see the rise of the far right, as is happening already in Europe.","author":"Jonathan Sacks","tags":["alt-right","far-right","nationalism","patriot","patriotic","patriotism"],"id":48568,"author_id":"Jonathan+Sacks"},{"text":"Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?","author":"Jonathan Sacks","tags":["questions","live","why "],"id":58092,"author_id":"Jonathan+Sacks"},{"text":"Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.","author":"Jonathan Sacks","tags":["children","freedom","passion "],"id":84732,"author_id":"Jonathan+Sacks"},{"text":"We encounter God in the face of a stranger. That, I believe, is the Hebrew Bible’s single greatest and most counterintuitive contribution to ethics. God creates difference; therefore it is in one-who-is-different that we meet god. Abraham encounters God when he invites three strangers into his tent.","author":"Jonathan Sacks","tags":["abraham","difference","ethics","god","strangers"],"id":107501,"author_id":"Jonathan+Sacks"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":44,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}