Quotes About Tzedakah

#1. Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.

Sholom Aleichem

#2. Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.

Peter Singer

#3. As Jews, we are commanded to give tzedakah - an act of justice, not charity - because it is the righteous thing to do.

Lynn Schusterman

#4. In the Talmud (a record of discussions of Jewish law and ethics by ancient rabbis) it is said that charity is equal in importance to all the other commandments combined, and that Jews should give at least 10 percent of their income as tzedakah.

Peter Singer

#5. I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality ... to protect myself.

Alberto Giacometti

#6. The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is ... political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.

Amiri Baraka

#7. Her Pan-Cake makeup was cracking like a dried-out Dakota lake bed.

John Sandford

#8. The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.

Ludwig Von Mises

#9. Good Lord, he even has sexy forearms!

M. Leighton

#10. Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to be constantly evolving.

Kiesza

#11. I don't know where the hell you came from, but I'm glad you did. I'd have been lost without you.

Adi Alsaid