Civil society Quote by Mary Robinson

“We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.” quote by Mary Robinson — Download Open image

“We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.”

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[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political society. And voluntarily, through the private interaction of individuals and associations - what we can call civil society. ... In a civil society, you make the decision. In a political society, someone else does. ... Civil…

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