The Catalan institutions and political parties have to be…

Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is…

— Randal Marlin

Thousands of E.U. law instruments have come onto the U.K. statute book - all without the democratic legitimacy our constitutional traditions expect.

— Suella Braverman

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

— David Cameron

As a civil society, our task is to pressure governments into democratic changes.

— Jordi Cuixart

“What is remarkable in Burke’s first performance,” wrote his great nineteenth-century biographer John Morley, “is his discernment of the important fact that behind the…

— Yuval Levin

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.

— Richard Branson

Arresting opposition leaders and restricting civil society will not stop people from protesting, but it can create leaderless movements that leave no one with…

— Tom Malinowski

“Remember what the fashion big mouths were saying about Jessica Simpson? Looking at her magazine pictures, sucking their teeth, going, "Oh, look at her…

— Whoopi Goldberg

For achieving good governance political will is necessary. Good governance is a political process. Though role of civil society is critical, without political will…

— Narendra Modi

“SHOW THE WORLD YOUR STRONG COMPASSION: GIVE YOUR VOICE TO VOICELESS YAZIDI GIRLS!”

— Widad Akrawi

“In Hobbes’ state of nature, when a male individual conquers (contracts with) a female individual he becomes her sexual master and she becomes his…

— Carole Pateman

[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political…

— Ed Crane

Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided…

— Immanuel Kant

The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,…

— Umair Haque