Civil Society Quotes
Civil Society Quote of the day
Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.
When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.
If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.
Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.
The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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.
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books.
If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.
In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands.
Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society.
I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.
Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.
Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.
The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.
We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.
Civil society has not lost the possibility to influence the government and force them to change their policy. That is why we believe in your voice and your help.
You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.
I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.
Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.
The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.
Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking the law and that is either paying the penalty for it, or leaving the country.
It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it.
The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.
Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. Your voice is need and much appreciated!
When people get out of jail, it is not easy for them to find a job. It is not easy for them to return to civil society.
I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.
The main drawback, of course, was cost. Participating effectively in World Summit on the Information Society was very expensive for both developing countries and (especially) civil society.
If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.
I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.
An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.
