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… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
“In Hobbes’ state of nature, when a male individual conquers (contracts with) a female individual he becomes her sexual master and she… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“SHOW THE WORLD YOUR STRONG COMPASSION: GIVE YOUR VOICE TO VOICELESS YAZIDI GIRLS!” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
For achieving good governance political will is necessary. Good governance is a political process. Though role of civil society is critical, without… — Narendra Modi 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
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
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
“What is remarkable in Burke’s first performance,” wrote his great nineteenth-century biographer John Morley, “is his discernment of the important fact that… — Yuval Levin 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
“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
“The state of civil society, which necessarily generates this aristocracy, is a state of nature; and much more truly so than a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Every government has signed up to a voluntary legal commitment under at least one of the international covenants and conventions based on… — Mary Robinson 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
It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant… — Baldwin Spencer 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
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
Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government.… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The 21st century will be the Asian century. This also means that Asians will be expected to provide greater leadership to solve… — Kishore Mahbubani Copy Share Image
“YAZIDIS AND CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE FREE OF NIGHT MIST AND BEHEADING DRIFT!” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
“even if Noam Chomsky were right about everything, the Islamic doctrines related to martyrdom, jihad, blasphemy, apostasy, the rights of women and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image