"Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity,……" — Jonathan Sacks
"Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind."
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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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