British - Clergyman | March 8, 1948 -
The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.
Jonathan Sacks
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Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
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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.
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Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
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In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
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Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.
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Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
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Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.
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I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
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I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.
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Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.
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There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.
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