Quote by Jonathan Sacks
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology. – Jonathan Sacks

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Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes. – Jonathan Sacks

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Science
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We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself. – Jonathan Sacks

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Family
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A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not. – Jonathan Sacks

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I think its pretty crazy to say youve been typecast at the age of 20 before youve even really started getting going. – Tom Felton

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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. – T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950

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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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