Jonathan Sacks Quotes

Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.

The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.

The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard.

There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.

The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism.

The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.

Why is there persecution in Germany today. Jewish persecution only followed after Christians first were persecuted.

There is one thing that Germany did, and that was to rout the Jews out of their country. Until we rout the Jews out of this country, it does not matter what orders [laws] you make.

When someone says that we will wipe out the Jews, we have to deny him the tools.

Anyone who makes the life of Jewish people difficult or grievous, as did the Pharaoh, as did Hitler, will be cursed by God

The Nazis have an ally in every town or village where there is a man eager to get rid of a Jewish competitor. The secret weapon of Hitler is the anti-Jewish inclinations of many millions of shopkeepers and grocers, of doctors and lawyers, professors and writers.

In Russia, the time of pogroms has passed once and for all. The strength of the workers and socialism there is much to strong for that … I can sooner imagine pogroms against Jews in Germany.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

Paris. Toulouse. Malmo. Copenhagen. Brussels. Berlin. For most people, they are lovely cities where you might happily take a holiday. But for the world's Jews, they are something else, too. They are place names of hate.

I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever appeared on my childhood landscape. Jewish persecution was an ever-looming reality, but always an abstract one.

Anti-Semitism has been a fact of European life for more than 2,000 years.

I have never been a victim of antisemitism - if you put to one side my war-time experience. That said, I am lucky not to have been sent into a concentration camp.

I would be heartbroken if I ever thought that people in the Jewish community thought that Britain was no longer a safe place for them.

It kind of goes without saying. But I will: If you are a Nazi, you aren't a fine person. You're bad.

When you grow up Jewish, you are exposed at a very young age to the phenomenon of anti-Semitism and its extreme manifestation in the Holocaust. I spent a lot of time as a little kid wondering how something like that could happen.

Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.

We will never harm the Jews.

We witness anti-Semitic attacks in the heart of Europe. We hear anti-Semitic slanders in European media. We feel anti-Semitic hatred in the continent that should have learned the lesson.

I would never have dreamt that I would live in this country and that we would see swastikas painted at the door of a psychology professor at Columbia University.

I wish I could say that we Germans have learned from our history once and for all, but I cannot say that when hatred is spreading.