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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Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives. – Jonathan Sacks

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Change
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The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety. – Jonathan Sacks

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Peace
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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 ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Society

What is the use of a house if you havent got a tolerable planet to put it on? – Henry David Thoreau

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Society

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship. – Lucy Powell

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Society

Even if one is interested only in ones own society, which is ones prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others. – Peter L. Berger

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Society

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I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and theres just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. – Dave Eggers

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I have a neuroscience background – thats what my doctorate is in – and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that. – Mayim Bialik

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A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman. – Sol Wachtler

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