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Society Quotes by Jonathan Sacks
- Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and…
- We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation…
- If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to…
- A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
- In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
- Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism…
- In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of…
- Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of…
- Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values…
- We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a…
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi