"I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic……" — Jonathan Sacks
"I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity."
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116 Quotes by Jonathan Sacks
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Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you…
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The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many…
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Man was not made for the service of economies; economies were made to serve mankind; and men and women were…
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Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but…
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Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.
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Freedom... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less
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Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.
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Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation…
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Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not…
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If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of…
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Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
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The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
— Bernard Baruch
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
— John Boehner
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