When we knowingly write in ways that we would not want…

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

“The state of civil society, which necessarily generates this aristocracy, is a state of nature; and much more truly so than a savage and…

— Edmund Burke

“Everybody is satisfied, that a conservation and secure enjoyment of our natural rights is the great and ultimate purpose of civil society; and that…

— Edmund Burke

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.

— James Madison

“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

Every government has signed up to a voluntary legal commitment under at least one of the international covenants and conventions based on the Universal…

— Mary Robinson