Jonathan Sacks Quotes

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• Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?
• A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we…
• Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This…
• Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a…
• A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
• As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.
• Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.
• God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.
• Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
• I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.
• In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
• In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
• Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
• Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
• The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.
• The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.
• The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.
• The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.
• We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
• While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

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