The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.
Interpretation
Holocaust survivors display remarkable resilience and strength in the face of unimaginable adversity.
Jonathan Sacks expresses profound admiration for Holocaust survivors, highlighting their extraordinary capacity to inspire others through their experiences. Their stories of survival and resilience serve as powerful reminders of the human spirit's ability to endure even the darkest of times, offering lessons in courage and hope for future generations.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about the importance of resilience in overcoming challenges.
Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.
When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.
My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.
My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
I just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and I wasn't good at it. I was only 17-years-old, so I had a lot to learn about life in general. But I just kept on trying. I was young enough and stupid enough and I had no other choice. I had nothing else I was good at.
The best way to get people to connect with an issue is to humanize it. You can do so much more powerfully with music and touch the heart.
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