A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“Whereas in Western countries the constitution merely had to guarantee the rights of a per-existing civil society and culture, in Russia it… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
In a totalitarian state like North Korea, a group of neighbors gathering once a week to watch the latest episode of a… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
Most writers in Mexico have had posts as ambassadors, secretaries - that is no longer the case. Now a writer can live… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I hope I can tell you what happened in Europe and support you in your fight to preserve freedom for your children… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
I think that my emergence as a leader is closely related to the development of Taiwan's democracy. Taiwan's democracy was a gradual… — Tsai Ing-wen Copy Share Image
World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Wherever, therefore, any number of men so unite into one society, as to quit everyone his executive power of the law of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If we want to make progress in key areas now, we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies. So… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty,… — Charles Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'this is mine', and found people simple enough… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I think there is a richness that we enjoy from the diversity that comes from people coming from around the world. And… — Jack Williams Copy Share Image
In China, you just don't have the space for civil society and independent discourse and free media that you do in India.… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
European civil society and NGOs that petition for favours and influence for their special interests are often themselves funded from E.U. coffers.… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
If the Americans would only take all the money they have spent on this war (Iraq), and spend it like Soros has… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is the perfect place for a dialogue that brings together industry, civil society, U.N. agencies, and… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
Arresting opposition leaders and restricting civil society will not stop people from protesting, but it can create leaderless movements that leave no… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
You need a civil society... Bushfires can achieve the change from society to community. Bushfires can. Floods can. Ghastly crimes and disasters… — Bob Maguire Copy Share Image
It is this desire to see civil society remain a strong and united force within the U.K. that has encouraged me to… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group;… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
The Catalan institutions and political parties have to be consistent, because they have the democratic legitimacy of the ballot box and they… — Jordi Cuixart Copy Share Image
The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
“Stories can educate, elevate, comfort, and afflict those who are too comfortable. They can create community. They can also drive people apart,… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The Beijing social commentator Li Fan once wrote a monograph on Christianity in China declaring that China’s unregistered churches were the only… — Ian Johnson Copy Share Image
I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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