Yeshayahu Leibowitz

"The religion of halakhic practice is the religion of life itself."

"Only a religion addressed to life's prose, a religion of the dull routine of daily activity, is worthy of the name."

"Our security has been diminished rather than enhanced as a result of the conquests in this war."

"Security" is a reality only where there is true peace between neighbors, as in the case of Holland/Belgium, Sweden/Norway, the United States/Canada.  In the absence of peace there is no security, and …"

"Emancipation from the bondage of nature can only be brought about by the religion of Mitzvoth"

"From a religious point of view the triadic classification of being as nature, spirit, and God has no validity. There is only the dyad: nature, which includes the human spirit, and God. The only way ma…"

"Only the prayer which one prays as the observance of a Mitzvah is religiously significant. The spontaneous prayer a man prays of his own accord is, of course, halakhically permissible, but, like the p…"

"As for the "religious" arguments for the annexation of the territories—these are only an expression, subconsciously or perhaps even overtly hypocritical, of the transformation of the Jewish religion i…"