In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
From Jonathan Sacks
Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.
While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.
In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all her subjects, and no one is better at making everyone she meets feel valued.
Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.
The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.
A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
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