Hillel Quotes & Sayings

If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? — Hillel The Elder

Electing Sudan to the U.N. body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter. — Hillel Neuer

Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire chief. — Hillel Neuer

When the great theologian and philosopher Rabbi Hillel was challenged to explain the Torah in the time he could stand on one foot, he replied, Do not do unto others that which is repugnant to you. All else is commentary. — Edward O. Wilson

The lesson for this Round, as we shall hear time and again, is that each generation inhabits a different acoustic universe, constituted by different musics and memories of sound, by different thicknesses of walls and densities of traffic, by different means of manufacture and broadcast, by different diets and ear-damaging diseases, by different proportions and preponderances of metal rattling in kitchens, clanging on the streets, or ringing in the ( differently polluted) air above. — Hillel Schwartz

In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human. — Hillel The Elder

What you yourself hate, don't do to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary. Go and study. — Hillel The Elder

I didn't want to die, ever. I wanted to watch a million suns set, love a million women, walk down a million city streets and lonely roads. A thousand lifetimes wouldn't be enough for that. Sometimes, convinced I had come down with some fatal illness, I was afraid I wouldn't even have one. — Hillel Halkin

We state it with a pure heart and full confidence that no Jew has ever thought and is not thinking now in any way whatsoever of impinging on Muslim rights and their holy places. — Hillel Cohen

Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving your fellow creatures and drawing them near to the Law. — Hillel The Elder

Weigh the reward of the mitzva against the pleasure of the sin, and also weigh the pleasure of the sin against the punishment it will inevitably bring. Are we getting a good deal by opting for sin? Clearly, we are not. — Yaakov Hillel

The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry. — Hillel The Elder

Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling. — Hillel F. Damron

A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself. — Hillel The Elder

That which is hateful to you, do not do to another. That is the whole Law. The rest is commentary. Now go and learn. — Rabbi Hillel

I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing. — Daniel Hillel

For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed ... — Abba Hillel Silver

If not you, then who? If not now, when? — Hillel First- Century Jewish Scholar

Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally. — Abba Hillel Silver

Take care of yourself - you never know when the world will need you. — Hillel The Elder

Nor was Jabotinsky enticed by the idea of Arab resettlement. People might call him an extremist, he said, but at least he had never dreamed of asking Arabs in a Jewish state to emigrate. — Hillel Halkin

If I am not for myself who is for me? — Hillel Danziger

Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later. — Flea

Who does not grow, declines. — Hillel The Elder

Moreover he saw a skull floating on the surface of the water and he said unto it: Because you drowned others they drowned you; and those that drowned you will eventually be drowned. — Hillel The Elder

Golden Rule": "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn. — Hillel The Elder

When Hillel died, it was during one of the happiest times of my life. I was married and completely in love and had a baby on the way. — Flea

If not you, who? If not now, when? — Hillel The Elder

A name made great is a name destroyed. He who does not increase his knowledge decreases it. — Hillel The Elder

Summary of the Torah, whilst standing on one leg: What is offensive when done to you, do not do it to your neighbor. The rest is commentary, now go and study (it). — Hillel The Elder- First-century Jewish Scholar

As you would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise," or Rabbi Hillel's statement, "What is hateful to you do not do to your neighbor; that is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary thereof. — Paul Bloom

Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure. — Hillel The Elder

Usability is the baseline. Your values, aspirations, and dreams are what fills the space above. — Hillel Cooperman

Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you. — Rabbi Hillel

patriarch over all of the land's inhabitants. Hillel's appointment ushers in an exciting period of creativity in developing the Oral Law, alongside the preservation of ancient traditions. Together, these two ideals serve as Hillel's guiding light: he expounds based on the rules of logic and simultaneously apprentices under the — Binyamin Lau

If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? — Rabbi Hillel

Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place. — Hillel The Elder

The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach. — Hillel The Elder

Golden Rule has been rediscovered many times: by the authors of Leviticus and the Mahabharata; by Hillel, Jesus, and Confucius; by the Stoic philosophers of the Roman Empire; by social contract theorists such as Hobbes, Rousseau, and Locke; and by moral philosophers such as Kant in his categorical imperative. — Steven Pinker

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction. — Rabbi Hillel

Do not unto others that which is hateful unto thee. — Hillel The Elder

Say not: "When I have free time I shall study", for you may perhaps never have any free time — Hillel The Elder

If in the past, you didnt cry out when thousands of protestors were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when more victims than ever were hanged by Iran, women and children in Afghanistan were bombed, whole communities were massacred in South Sudan, 1800 Palestinians were starved and murdered by Assad in Syria, hundreds in Pakistan were killed by jihadist terrorist attacks, 10,000 Iraqis were killed by terrorists, villagers were slaughtered in Nigeria, but you ONLY cry out for Gaza, then you are NOT Pro- Human Rights, you are only Anti-Israel. — Hillel Neuer

The challenge of the writer is to transform - artistically and imaginatively - a unique personal experience into a universal, meaningful story. — Hillel F. Damron

In the U.S. and Canada, 50% of the young leadership of all the organizations like AIPAC and Hillel are Birthright alumni. — Charles Bronfman

The Land of Israel will be small, but the people of Israel will make it great. Not
in opulence, but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their
pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the
faithful and skillful building of the good society. — Abba Hillel Silver