It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights.… — Wayne Smith 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
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
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
But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms… — James Madison 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
“Was there something distinctive about American civil society that gave democracy a better chance than in France, as Tocqueville argued? Was the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The American Founding Fathers gave us courts, independent jurists. They left room for civil society, which meant that citizens could directly associate… — Condoleezza Rice 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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In… — Evgeny Morozov 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
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
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
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
I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty,… — Charles Lawrence 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
“Whereas in Western countries the constitution merely had to guarantee the rights of a per-existing civil society and culture, in Russia it… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and… — James Madison 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
It is this desire to see civil society remain a strong and united force within the U.K. that has encouraged me to… — Dominic Grieve 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
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