Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.


Yair Lapid

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irr...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Let him who walks in darkness and no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God
PEOPLE OF CHRIST
Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we'...
SUSAN CAIN
That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn'...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't ...
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES
Honestly, I don't really care whether Jesus had ever walked upon planet earth or not.
I'm only...
TOBA BETA
I shiver, thinking about how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-- to see one tiny part of t...
LAUREN OLIVER
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON
There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ...
ALBERT CAMUS
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations o...
THOMAS SOWELL
I think it's a good idea. Anytime you get more than two people together to talk about any issue, you...
BOB SIMPSON
I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And i...
ANTONIN SCALIA
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON
You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY
Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY
no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
In Judaism, there are a lot of rules - everything from which fingernail you cut first to which side ...
MATISYAHU
Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I...
BRIAN SELZNICK
Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.
CAROLINA HERRERA
I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shoul...
DAN BUETTNER
What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those peo...
LARRY ELLISON
A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They los...
JAN KOUM
The indomitable uniqueness of our animated but enigmatic phases of individualistically lived life in...
TOM BODETT
Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the ...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN
Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the ...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN
In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global ...
LAKHDAR BRAHIMI
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
JOHN CAGE
What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make yo...
TIM SCHAFER
I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG
A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY
The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY
The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS...
The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY
Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS...
It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS...
To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS...
I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
ARTHUR GOLDEN
كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف
The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.
CARLA BRUNI
Hustle is simple - it's doing the work. A lot of people like to talk about it, a lot of people h...
TROY CARTER
One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhum...
IVO ANDRIC
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram...
HOWARD AIKEN
Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA
This isn't a book about war, but about the strength of ideas that drive people to extreme action.
GERALDINE BROOKS
We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like...
DAN GILBERT
People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what every...
JANE SEYMOUR
He is truly one of this community's assets. There are a lot of people out there who have plans and i...
MAYOR PAUL HELMKE
Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something trigger...
LAZARO HERNANDEZ
I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young pe...
JEREMY CORBYN
The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, b...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN
I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it'...
CARL LEWIS
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and fl...
MARGARET ANDERSON
See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...
ARTHUR MILLER
It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
EMILE M. CIORAN
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you any...
LEE IACOCCA
Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don'...
MAGIC JOHNSON
The big problem many people today have is not the problem of having inspiration. Inspiration and ide...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
The ideas I use are mostly the ideas of people who don't develop them
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
A man drank and became drunk, next he said, now i am delivered from my enemies and then walked into ...
SOTONYE ANGA
I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and ...
BILLY CORGAN
Fantasies can be great, but we shouldn't make the wedding a fantasy, because the wedding is the ...
ALAIN DE BOTTON
I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to b...
CHAZ BONO
That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing...
WALKER STAPLETON
We have a tendency to worship great people but do not adapt their ideas in our lives.
GIRDHAR JOSHI
35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON
We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what...
PETER DIAMANDIS
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be med...
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI
There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot...
DAVID FRUM
Some people are married to ideas that they do not love, ideas that do not love them in return. They ...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
It brings people together that wouldn't normally be together, and it sponsors a feeling of fellowshi...
CRAIG ADKINS
Love can take one over the clouds, out to space
And also to the depths of the Earth where you ...
LUNA MARYM
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
TOMMY SMOTHERS
Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
SAM WALTON
it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY

More Yair Lapid

Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
YAIR LAPID
The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a to...
YAIR LAPID
I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the s...
YAIR LAPID
Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regim...
YAIR LAPID
Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.
YAIR LAPID
I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2...
YAIR LAPID
If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
YAIR LAPID
Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contr...
YAIR LAPID
At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were s...
YAIR LAPID
An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition o...
YAIR LAPID
If someone doubts our right to exist - be it on the hills of Umm al-Fahem or in Munich's beer ha...
YAIR LAPID
The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks i...
YAIR LAPID
Holocaust survivors came to Israel in order to establish a new human society where nobody would be a...
YAIR LAPID
I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of...
YAIR LAPID
Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and tra...
YAIR LAPID
The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the...
YAIR LAPID
I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
YAIR LAPID
The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our t...
YAIR LAPID
Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outr...
YAIR LAPID
One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its ...
YAIR LAPID
I'm willing to take a polygraph test to prove that I'm happy about Kahlon's return to po...
YAIR LAPID
Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along th...
YAIR LAPID
Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
YAIR LAPID
If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
YAIR LAPID
I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., a...
YAIR LAPID
I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an...
YAIR LAPID
I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stag...
YAIR LAPID
The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
YAIR LAPID
The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents ...
YAIR LAPID
The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read t...
YAIR LAPID
The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Pal...
YAIR LAPID
The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid...
YAIR LAPID
Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establi...
YAIR LAPID
The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective...
YAIR LAPID
When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their...
YAIR LAPID
Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud.
YAIR LAPID
People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
YAIR LAPID
Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
YAIR LAPID
Although not immediately, the joint venture will help us to become a meaningful player in the market...
YAIR SAKOV
Over the past 18 months, we have taken significant steps to position ourselves in the US, Africa, Eu...
YAIR SAKOV
I think people will look back at this period as the Golden Age of animation. There used to be one st...
YAIR LANDAU
He looks fine, feels fine, he wants to go home.
YAIR BARENBOIM
will not live under the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb.
YOSEF LAPID
Israel will not live under the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb. We feel we are obliged to warn our...
YOSEF LAPID
Mr. Prime minister, take advantage of this opportunity, because your government is unworthy to conti...
YOSEF LAPID
The hunt for Nazis is no longer relevant. There are no important Nazis alive any more, essentially. ...
YOSEF LAPID
saves Israel again from the embarrassment that the haste of the government has caused throughout the...
YOSEF LAPID
A part of my life is over and completed. A part of which I am proud.
JOSEPH LAPID
He was one of a kind. I don't know any other man like him.
JOSEPH LAPID
He promises to do as much damage and harm to Israel as he can,
JOSEPH LAPID
He promises to do as much damage and harm to Israel as he can, ... He in this sense is a very, very ...
JOSEPH LAPID
But you must know that we are a country threatened to be annihilated by our enemies. We are the only...
JOSEPH LAPID
We let you guess whatever you wish. What we have promised, and we keep the promise: We will not be t...
JOSEPH LAPID
We are in favor of elections and we are in favor of toppling the government but we will not join the...
YOSEF LAPID