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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Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent. – Jonathan Sacks

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Change
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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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The royals – all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles – have done outstanding work with the faith communities. – Jonathan Sacks

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Faith
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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society thats filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act. – Don DeLillo

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Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. – Havelock Ellis

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Society

I did it to myself. It wasnt society… it wasnt a pusher, it wasnt being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. – Ray Charles

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Society

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than theyve been brought there by no fault of their own, I dont think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society. – Rick Perry

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Society

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