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
European civil society and NGOs that petition for favours and influence for their special interests are often themselves funded from E.U. coffers.… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
If the Americans would only take all the money they have spent on this war (Iraq), and spend it like Soros has… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'this is mine', and found people simple enough… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I think there is a richness that we enjoy from the diversity that comes from people coming from around the world. And… — Jack Williams Copy Share Image
In China, you just don't have the space for civil society and independent discourse and free media that you do in India.… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group;… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and… — Matt Taibbi 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
Often vastly more important, international agreements are not routinely published in draft form or publicly debated, and civil society organizations and ordinary… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Most writers in Mexico have had posts as ambassadors, secretaries - that is no longer the case. Now a writer can live… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
If we want to make progress in key areas now, we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies. So… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Wherever, therefore, any number of men so unite into one society, as to quit everyone his executive power of the law of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The Catalan institutions and political parties have to be consistent, because they have the democratic legitimacy of the ballot box and they… — Jordi Cuixart 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
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward… — Pope Benedict XVI 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
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
You need a civil society... Bushfires can achieve the change from society to community. Bushfires can. Floods can. Ghastly crimes and disasters… — Bob Maguire Copy Share Image
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The Beijing social commentator Li Fan once wrote a monograph on Christianity in China declaring that China’s unregistered churches were the only… — Ian Johnson Copy Share Image
I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that… — Joseph Story 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 sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“Stories can educate, elevate, comfort, and afflict those who are too comfortable. They can create community. They can also drive people apart,… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and… — James Madison 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
“Like the Founders, the Conservative also recognizes in society a harmony of interests, as Adam Smith put it, and rules of cooperation… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly… — Ban Ki-moon 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
“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
I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror… — Emma Thompson 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
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
“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
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