Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Africa Rising is as much about improving standards of governance as it is about an increasingly confident youths and civil society. It… — Yemi Osinbajo 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
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
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
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
Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
“This was the march of civilization. First there is barbarism, no schools at all, all learning done at home, chaotically if at… — Dave Eggers 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
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
“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
“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
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
I think that my emergence as a leader is closely related to the development of Taiwan's democracy. Taiwan's democracy was a gradual… — Tsai Ing-wen 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
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
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
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
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
I hope I can tell you what happened in Europe and support you in your fight to preserve freedom for your children… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil… — George Washington 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
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
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
It is on balance desirable to encourage Universal Jurisdiction, and to create pressure from below to make application of such jurisdiction as… — Richard A. Falk 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
“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
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
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
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
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
Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise… — Ban Ki-moon 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
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