Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this. — Muhtar Kent Copy Share Image
Mexico established a unique three-part governing system shared by the government, the information commission and civil society organisations. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“WE KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS... IN THE TERROR FOREST! WE HOPE FOR MOONLIGHT!” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
“Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE FATE... OF THE ENSLAVED... YAZIDI WOMEN” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Governments, the investor and business community, and civil society organizations and public representatives need to work together to ensure the necessary foundations… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights.… — Wayne Smith Copy Share Image
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Any sign that says we're going to leave Iraq before the job is done simply emboldens terrorists and creates a certain amount… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Any move by Israel to end the conflict with the Palestinians by unilateral moves - such as annexing the West Bank, delinking… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Civil society space provides the oxygen for citizens to participate and meaningfully hold their governments and the private sector to account -… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
“Was there something distinctive about American civil society that gave democracy a better chance than in France, as Tocqueville argued? Was the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The American Founding Fathers gave us courts, independent jurists. They left room for civil society, which meant that citizens could directly associate… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“Contra Hobbes and Locke, Rousseau refused to believe that the obligations to civil society could be derived from self-interest, the preservation of… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I don't think that developing countries gained from a two-stage process. A single phase summit (which is, after all, a two year… — David Souter Copy Share Image
“Imperial and colonial attitudes still define the terms 'civilized world,' 'international community' and 'civil society.' Balkan people were never too impressed by… — Andrej Grubačić Copy Share Image
“Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Our planet is about ... billions of years old. So far, the earliest finds of modern human skeletons come from Africa, which… — Nadja Sam Copy Share Image
“One of those outrages, presumably, was Joseph Smith’s vocal opposition to slavery, and the governor’s executive order was the culmination of years… — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
“The prominent British statesman and scholar Edmund Burke (1729–1797) emphasized another fundamental characteristic of the civil society—valuing human experience, tradition, and custom.… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“The notion that a vast gulf exists between "criminals" and those of us who have never served time in prison is a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“One of the first motives to civil society, and which becomes one of its fundamental rules, is that no man should be… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Everybody is satisfied, that a conservation and secure enjoyment of our natural rights is the great and ultimate purpose of civil society;… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE FATE OF NEGLECTED YAZIDI CHILDREN” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
“IT’S ALL CLEAR ISIS INVADES YOUR SPHERE YET NO ONE IMAGINES YOUR FEAR BUT DON'T WORRY TAUSSI MELEK IS HERE RESTORING LIVES… — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
“SHOW THE WORLD YOUR STRONG COMPASSION! GIVE YOUR VOICE TO VOICELESS KOBANE KIDS!” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
“I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE AND TELL EVERYONE HOW THEY SPONSOR... THE KILLING OF THE YAZIDI NATION” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
