Jonathan Sacks Quotes

The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part of what I learned when I learned about the Second World War and the concentration camps.

In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.

It is an open war until the elimination of Israel and until the death of the last Jew on earth.

A great part Jewish history was occupied by the simple attempt of Jews to stay alive.

It is not a crime to be a Jew. I am not a dog. I have a right to live. The Jewish People have a right to some part of the earth.

After the Holocaust, the Jews are justified in taking any steps to protect themselves.

When we say, “Never Again!”, we actuality don’t mean “sometimes”. We don’t mean “somewhere”. We mean “Never Again!”

Never to forget the Holocaust was not only against Jews. It was mostly against Jews but it was also against homosexuals, gypsies and, let's not forget, people with disability.

The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.

If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.

The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century.

When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.

The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism.

I have always lived in Amsterdam. During the war, we inhabited the Rivieren neighborhood where many Jews lived at the time. Our downstairs neighbors were Jews, and there were also Jews a few houses from us. We saw how they were rounded up and taken away. That made a very great impression on me.

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

The reason the Jews hate Nazis is primarily because they didn't come up with the idea first.

The victory will be only entirely and finally achieved when the whole world is free of Jews.

The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.