"The message of the Bible for the politics of the contemporary West is that it is not enough to have a state. You also need a society -- meaning, that common belonging that comes from a sense that we are neighbours as well as strangers; that we have duties to one another, to the heritage of the past and to the hopes of generations not yet born; that society is not a hotel where we receive services in exchange for money, but a home to which we feel attached and whose history is (literally or adoptively) our own. That requires covenantal, not just contractual, politics."
- Jonathan Sacks