No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up… — Joe Biden 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 WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND BEG EVERYONE... TO BE A HERO... AND SAVE THE YAZIDI NATION” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
We strongly believe that individual advocates play an important role in developing a civil society. — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Rob Reich, a professor of political science at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, explains… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder… — William Penn Copy Share Image
“When we knowingly write in ways that we would not want others to write to us, we abrade the trust that sustains… — Joseph M. Williams Copy Share Image
By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to… — Nelson Mandela 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
Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so… — Shakira Copy Share Image
“in a thousand ways people combine not just in circles of friendship but in formal associations, willingly adopting and submitting to rules… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
It's unsurprising that while Americans and Donald Trump are working to re-establish the rule of law and rebuild civil society in America,… — Corey Stewart 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
Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings,… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
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
So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“Contra Hobbes and Locke, Rousseau refused to believe that the obligations to civil society could be derived from self-interest, the preservation of… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“For it was the rejection of the possibility of human solidarity with strangers—the critical as well as moral presupposition of civil society—that… — Helmut Walser Smith 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
