“I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND TELL EVERYONE... THAT THIS IS HAPPENING... IN THE CENTURY TWENTY-ONE” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
“No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
As a civil society, our task is to pressure governments into democratic changes. — Jordi Cuixart Copy Share Image
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that? — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
That a country has a strong civil society is, I believe, particularly necessary for good development. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
“That one generation of men in civil society have no right to make acts to bind another, is a truth that cannot… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
This is why universities, and civil society more generally, are so important for a democracy like ours, founded on a genuine idealism… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I… — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
The main drawback, of course, was cost. Participating effectively in World Summit on the Information Society was very expensive for both developing… — David Souter Copy Share Image
The Social License is fundamentally about accountability to people and not just powerful interests. John Morrison’s book reminds all organizations – governments,… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
Right now, American government has stepped back from offering any kinds of protection for human rights and public health. And the fossil… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted… — Abraham J. Williams Copy Share Image
Politicians can either keep listening to a small number of polluting fossil fuel companies, who're keen to profit from keeping us hooked… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
“Power not only corrupts but also magnifies existing psychopathologies, even as it creates new ones. Fostered by the flattery of underlings and… — Bandy X Lee Copy Share Image
“To say that all individuals are embedded in and the product of society is banal. Obama rises above banality by means of… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“The greatest threat to a robust, autonomous civil society is the ever-growing Leviathan state and those like Obama who see it as… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“It’s as if the concept of taxation as theft—rather than as a shared burden that all should contribute toward as the cost… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine , and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In a pluralistic society like ours, I think the ability to resist hate comes from cultivating a civil society that, on the… — William Barr Copy Share Image
“It requires emphasis that the states established the American Republic and, through the Constitution, retained for themselves significant authority to ensure the… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“By giving full expression to the contradiction between civil society and the state, the French Revolution radically transformed both its terms. To… — Stathis Kouvelakis Copy Share Image
“...Alas, Babylon was to be among the first to give a public voice to the fears and anxieties associated with a nuclear… — Hal Hager Copy Share Image
“For realists, the state is the main actor and sovereignty is its distinguishing trait. The meaning of the sovereign state is inextricably… — John Baylis Copy Share Image
“Political emancipation is a reduction of man, on the one hand to a member of civil society, an independent and egoistic individual,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Remember what the fashion big mouths were saying about Jessica Simpson? Looking at her magazine pictures, sucking their teeth, going, "Oh, look… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The fourth and final dimension of religious freedom in full is the right—both individually and as part of a larger religious community—to… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In any civil society, there's a serious problem when confidence in the rule of law is shaken. — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly. — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
We strongly believe that individual advocates play an important role in developing a civil society. — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute. — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms. — David Collenette Copy Share Image
“I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE AND REMIND EVERYONE OF THE SUFFERING... OF THE ENSLAVED... YAZIDI WOMEN” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
