Quote by Jonathan Sacks
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. – Jonathan Sacks

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Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religions imminent demise. – Jonathan Sacks

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Religion
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Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: its more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race. – Jonathan Sacks

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Age
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If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher. – Jonathan Sacks

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Leadership
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I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see whats happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society. – Henning Mankell

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Society

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves. – Barbara Kingsolver

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Society

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up ones responsibility as a free man. – Alan Paton

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Society

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another. – Kenneth L. Pike

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Society

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