Civil society Quote by Nelson Mandela Download Open image “If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.” — Nelson Mandela ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil society Development Ifs Significant Want
That a country has a strong civil society is, I believe, particularly necessary for good development. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Development must be such that it positively transforms the lives of the common people. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
We need a mobilized and active civil society using its purchasing power to demand sustainable products and practices. It is also essential that governments… — Guilherme Leal Copy Share Image
We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action. — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look… — Lal Bahadur Shastri Copy Share Image
Development should be a mass movement. We need to integrate the people and make it a mass movement. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of development process. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Development seems to have become the agenda only of government. It is seen as a scheme. That should not be the case. Development should… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If you don't allow people to contribute, to offer their point of view, or to criticize what has been put before them, then they… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom; a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share
Some of the mission groups that have been responsible for our education have not been part of the government. In fact, they acted contrary… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
What he means by this is that instead of saying you'll "try", you need to "do". And as we let our light shine, we… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful:… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we… — Nelson Mandela 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 trust, connection, and community. That's what there's too little of in today's mediascape, despite all the hoopla surrounding social tools. The promise of the Internet wasn't merely to inflate relationships, without adding depth, resonance, and meaning. It was… — Umair Haque Copy Share
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
[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… — Ed Crane Copy Share
“In Hobbes’ state of nature, when a male individual conquers (contracts with) a female individual he becomes her sexual master and she becomes his servant. Rousseau’s conjectural history of the development of civil society tells how women must ‘tend the hut’, and in La Nouvelle Héloise Julie superintends the daily domestic business at Clarens. The story has been told again… — Carole Pateman Copy Share
“SHOW THE WORLD YOUR STRONG COMPASSION: GIVE YOUR VOICE TO VOICELESS YAZIDI GIRLS!” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
For achieving good governance political will is necessary. Good governance is a political process. Though role of civil society is critical, without political will… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“Remember what the fashion big mouths were saying about Jessica Simpson? Looking at her magazine pictures, sucking their teeth, going, "Oh, look at her in her 'mom jeans.'" Know what? That is an unnecessarily cheap shot at her and kinda lousy to moms at the same time. Who the hell are they to say that? What gratification does it give… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share
Arresting opposition leaders and restricting civil society will not stop people from protesting, but it can create leaderless movements that leave no one with… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“What is remarkable in Burke’s first performance,” wrote his great nineteenth-century biographer John Morley, “is his discernment of the important fact that behind the intellectual disturbances in the sphere of philosophy, and the noisier agitations in the sphere of theology, there silently stalked a force that might shake the whole fabric of civil society itself.”4 A caustic and simplistic skepticism… — Yuval Levin Copy Share
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union. — James Madison Copy Share Image
