Association Quote by Ernest Gellner

Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands…

— Jonathan Sacks

“Oakeshott believed that civil association has been increasingly displaced by enterprise, under pressure from political elites, managers, parties and ideologues. It is not only…

— Roger Scruton

As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and…

— Abraham J. Williams

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery.…

— Frank Herbert

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

— Jay Weatherill

“A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit…

— Santosh Kalwar

“Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.”

— John Stuart Mill

The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it was established…

— Pope Leo XII

[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political…

— Ed Crane

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and…

— Indira Gandhi

Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the…

— Giorgio Agamben

“Wherever, therefore, any number of men so unite into one society, as to quit everyone his executive power of the law of Nature, and…

— John Locke