“In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group;… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
The progress of manufactures and commerce insensibly collects a large multitude within the walls of a city: but these citizens are no… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms. — David Collenette Copy Share Image
We need a strong civil society where the connection between different people and groups is firm and vibrant, not brittle and divided. — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
“It’s as if the concept of taxation as theft—rather than as a shared burden that all should contribute toward as the cost… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Civil society space provides the oxygen for citizens to participate and meaningfully hold their governments and the private sector to account -… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“It is not the different practice from one another that breaks the Peace and Unity, but judging of one another because of… — Isaac Penington Copy Share Image
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Any sign that says we're going to leave Iraq before the job is done simply emboldens terrorists and creates a certain amount… — George W. Bush 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
Politicians can either keep listening to a small number of polluting fossil fuel companies, who're keen to profit from keeping us hooked… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
“In fact, the words perfectibilité and civilisation made their first appearance in any European language in the 1750s. The adjective ‘social’ acquired… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Every democracy must involve civil society in the process of establishing budgets, and all sectors of society must be consulted to determine… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Civil society has not lost the possibility to influence the government and force them to change their policy. That is why we… — Lidia Yusupova Copy Share Image
One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
“We are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
