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
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
When you have a liberal class that no longer functions, when those people who traditionally defend and care about a civil society… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
One even tries to figure out why Donald Trump is so admiring of a leader who has cracked down on journalists and… — Philip Gordon Copy Share Image
Russia is a country that has supported, propped up the worst of anti-democratic regimes in the Middle East, that has practiced -… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness - doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any… — Ai Weiwei 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
All over the world, independent and strong civil society - NGOs, faith leaders, and other community advocates - help governments solve problems… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was… — Nelson Mandela 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
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
I think a system where you're putting the burden on, under-resourced civil society groups, under-resourced academics, under-resourced public servants, is just going… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Here's the positive scenario: that something has been going wrong in American society. You see it in wage growth, opioid abuse, many… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“Becoming a modern society is about industrialization, urbanization, and rising levels of literacy, education, and wealth. The qualities that make a society… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“We believe that liberty of religious faith is the first and foremost freedom in human society, is a universal value in the… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
Man cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him… — Pope Pius XI 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
“Materialism is also associated with more anti-social and self-centred behaviour. One of the effects of a materialistic disposition is a greater tendency… — Jane Caro 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
Think of civil society and the state as joined in a marriage of necessity. You already know who the wife is, the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most… — Lewis F. Powell, Jr Copy Share Image
Democracy is disruptive. Around the world, peaceful protesters are being demonised for this, but there is no right in a democratic civil… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“I will follow anyone... and remind everyone... that their fear is genuine.” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it is only a powerful civil society movement which can break the vicious cycle of corruption in any society. — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
“WE KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS... IN THE TERROR FOREST! WE HOPE FOR MOONLIGHT!” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE AND TELL EVERYONE HOW THEY SPONSOR... THE KILLING OF THE YAZIDI NATION” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
“SHOW THE WORLD YOUR STRONG COMPASSION! GIVE YOUR VOICE TO VOICELESS KOBANE KIDS!” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
While the World Bank is an inter-governmental institution, drawing its funds from member governments and run by a board of directors nominated… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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