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“I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law... There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying its foundations.”

“Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such fashion that they looked upon insolence as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, impudence of speech as equality, and licence to do what they pleased as happiness, but rather a polity which detested and punished such men and by so doing made all the citizens better and wiser.”

“The Social License is fundamentally about accountability to people and not just powerful interests. John Morrison’s book reminds all organizations – governments, business and civil society – to focus on the legitimacy of their own actions.”

People Book Government Action Social Interest Powerful Focus Organization Accountability License Civil Society Legitimacy

Author:Kumi Naidoo

“But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.”

Firsts Law Political Order Religious Lord Ten Demand Conscience Tables Realms Regulation Commandments Civil Society Ten Commandments Magistrates

Author:Roger Williams

“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for the security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life.”

Mean Ends Political Liberty Security Objects Higher Highest Sake Pursuit Administration Private Life Civil Society

Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely, rather than imposed by birth or sustained by awesome ritual. You can join the Labour Party without slaughtering a sheep.”

Enough Left Strong Party Birth Institutions Tyranny Labour Ritual Association Sheep Strong Enough Civil Society Labour Party Clusters

Book:Conditions of liberty: civil society and its rivals

Source: Conditions of liberty: civil society and its rivals

“The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.”

Children Character President Society Treats Child Abuse Revealing Raising Children Civil Society True Character

Author:Nelson Mandela

“As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and disposed to Society. It was not good for Man at first to be alone; his nature is social, having various Affections, Propensities and Passions, which respect Society, and cannot be indulged without a social Intercourse.”

Men Firsts Government Passion Given Social Affection Various Intercourse Civil Society Propensity

Author:Abraham J. Williams

“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.”

May Reason Belief Morality Ties Disbelief Civil Society Pernicious

Author:David Hume

“World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call on all partners - governments, international donors, civil society, the private sector, the media, families and individuals alike - to develop sustainable activities for the survival, health and well-being of mothers and children. On this World Health Day, let us rededicate ourselves to that mission.”

“At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources and fossil fuel make the status quo untenable. The only question is whether civil society will survive the transition.”

Economy Issues Source Population Debt Passing Passings Rising Fuel Transition Status Quo Fossils Passing Away Fossil Fuel Civil Society Global Economy

Book:Freedom (TM)

Source: Freedom (TM)

“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.”

Littles Self Left Weapons Understood Defense Citizenship Civilians Concealed Self Defense Civil Society Concealed Weapons

Author:Jill Lepore

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

“Freedom can be destroyed, not just by its retraction, but also by its abuse.”

Freedom Liberty Society Abuse Destroyed Civil Society

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.”

“The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.”

Wells States Moments Interest Modern Particular Members Essence Universal Bounds Well Being Organized Civil Society Complete Freedom

Book:Hegel's Philosophy of right

Source: Hegel's Philosophy of right

“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.”

Humans Problem Justice Society Civilization Solutions Species Civil Society Human Species

Book:Kant: Political Writings

Source: Kant: Political Writings

“You need a civil society... Bushfires can achieve the change from society to community. Bushfires can. Floods can. Ghastly crimes and disasters can. Places can change... but it takes blood, sweat and tears.”

Needs Community Blood Achieve Crime Tears Disaster Sweat Flood Civil Society Ghastly Sweat And Tears Blood Sweat And Tears

Author:Bob Maguire

“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.”

Atheism Conscience Sacred Atheist Proof Midst Civil Society

Author:Michael Novak

“A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.”

Nations Voice United Responsibility International Agency United Nations Civil Society

Author:John Charles Polanyi

“[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 society is based on reason, eloquence, and persuasion, which is to say voluntarism. Political society, on the other hand, is based on force.”

Way Doe Two States Reason Hands Political Order Individual Force Social Decision Society Bottom Affair Association Mechanism Interaction Persuasion Two Ways Eloquence Civil Society

Author:Ed Crane

“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.”

People States Helping Process Justice Society Command Utility Civil Society Interdiction

Author:Anthony de Jasay

“Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.”

Government Courses Authority Constitution Lays Congress Corners Welfare Articles Commerce Federal Government Sections Deliberate Civil Society Clauses General Welfare Misreading Section 8

Author:Ed Crane

“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.”

Looks Helping Government Letting Go Committed Reports Hook Pins Civil Society

Author:Mary Robinson

“The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the Jews as the new Priestly caste. The alternative Church of our society, the Jews, survived in abeyance for hundreds of years. As long as the Christian Church attended to the discourse, the Jews plainly had no chance to compete; but when its power was broken by liberty-seekers, the alternative arrangement came forward.”

“The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.”

Institutions Civil Society

Author:Paddy Ashdown

“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.”

World Humans Ideas Today Values Democracy Rights Salvation West Human Rights Free Market Rapids World Today Civil Society Dissemination

Author:Vaclav Havel

“Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society.”

People World Government Standards Institutions Financial Genuine Corporate Partnership Civil Society Positive Change High Standards Corporate World Financial Institutions Probity

Author:Pratibha Patil

“As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.”

Force Decision Levels Principles Rights Revolution Equal Highest Presses Decision Making Participation Egypt Civil Society

Author:Michelle Bachelet

“In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.”

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Author:Christiane Amanpour

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