Ovadia Yosef Quotes

There are no journalistic ethics that transcend the value of human life. There are none. In a situation where you can save a human life, you must. There isn't any conflict in my mind.

I was a witness to lots of death... Saving a human life was something really, really beautiful... no matter who they are. Not only Israeli people owe me their lives. I guarantee many terrorists, many Palestinian leaders, owe me their lives - or in other words, they owe my Lord their lives.

Saving lives is the top morality.

I couldn't let him die; I was the agent of life for Stephen.

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land.

I don't have time for politics. There is a mission, and that is to save lives.

I've still got to do something to help, however tiny it is. I always think of the old Hebrew saying, which is translated roughly into, 'He who saves one life saves the world,' because it's pretty ghastly to think of all the people we're not saving.

I wanted to save people's lives. I wanted to do something good in this world.

Trophies are good, but saving somebody who could die, giving them hope of a life, that means a lot to me.

The world needs people who save lives.

What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

I once saved someone from drowning.

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Whenever I see people in difficulty, I just try to help them. In fact, I believe I have helped over 700,000 people in my life.

I'm not saving lives.

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

The Jew seeks space to continue living, while the Arab defends his space to the death.