“The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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Category: politics
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Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions
“Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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Category: faith
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Religion is the best antidote to the
“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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A survey carried out across the U.S.
“A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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Category: money
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What creates freedom? A revolution in the
“What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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Category: change
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If we are to negotiate the coming
“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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Category: leadership
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Britain, relative to the U.S., is a
“Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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Category: government
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True freedom requires the rule of law
“True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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Category: freedom
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Religion is the best antidote to the
“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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Category: history
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Religion creates community, community creates altruism and
“Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good… There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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Europe is dying. That is one of
“Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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Category: change
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