"In virtually every Western society in the 1960s……" — Jonathan Sacks
"In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint."
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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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Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of…
— Julian Huxley
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The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every…
— Lloyd deMause
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The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist…
— Francis of Assisi
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The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead…
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is…
— Ludwig von Mises
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To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing…
— R. D. Laing
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The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and…
— Sigmund Freud
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How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or…
— Walter Inglis Anderson
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From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the…
— Patrick Henry
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