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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While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if its hard. Invest in the spirit. – Jonathan Sacks

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Future
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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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Society
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The things that are wrong with the country today are the sum total of all the things that are wrong with us as individuals. – Charles W. Tobey

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Society

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create. – David Mamet

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Society

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. – James A. Baldwin

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Society

Im very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society. – Kathleen Turner

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Society

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I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this — we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc

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Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship. – Thomas Fuller

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strength

Theres a higher form of happiness in commitment. Im counting on it. – Claire Forlani

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Great passions, my dear, dont exist: theyre liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while. – Anna Magnani

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great