Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes on Politics
Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Polish-born American Jewish philosopher, theologian, and rabbi, the descendant of a long line of Hasidic masters, professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, and one of the leading religious voices of the twentieth-century American civil rights movement. This page collects quotes attributed to Abraham Joshua Heschel on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Abraham Joshua Heschel:
“I felt my legs were praying.”
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Attributed to Abraham Joshua Heschel:
“The opposite of good is not evil; it is indifference.”
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“In a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.”
The Religious Basis of Equality of Opportunity—The Segregation of God" (1963) in Race: Challenge to Religion (1963) Edited by Mathew Ahmann. -
“The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt. There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd , a war that is incessant, universal. Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .”
The Meaning of Jewish Existence" in The Torch (1950)