"Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism……" — Jonathan Sacks
"Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness."
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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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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community…
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Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women,…
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Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.
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