"The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities.……" — Jonathan Sacks
"The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies."
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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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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity…
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Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and…
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Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting…
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It is easy to magnify human personality and agencies. Prayer recognizes that God is the source of life and light…
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