Top 1200 Civil Society Quotes & Sayings

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

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.

A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.

You either have a civil society or you dont.

By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly restrictions on free assembly and about the rising tide of everyday regulation has seriously impeded community activity - from organising street parties to helping children.

One of the signs that things are going reasonably well for democracy is that we have the states where they're closer to the people. Federalism is a strength. We have all of these civil society institutions - civil society is a very important hallmark of democracy.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

We cannot imagine democracies without a vibrant civil society.

Civil society people - these are the people - civil society groups are the people who need to monitor the aid to ensure that the aid is directed to what it is supposed to. And in order for them to do so, they need to have the space, they need to have the freedom, and they need to have the right to demonstrate, and to petition their government. They can't do that in Ethiopia; they can't do that in Eritrea; and so this is why I was cautioning that we may be repeating some of our old mistakes.

If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.

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.

Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for its foundation some natural right pre-existing in the individual, but to the enjoyment of which his individual power is not, in all cases, sufficiently competent. Of this kind are all those which relate to security and protection.

I worry that I may have overstated the impact of Civil War on the utopians. By the time the Civil War comes, most of the communities were quite separated from the wider American society. Their rhetoric is still about transforming the world, but they're not having that much traffic with their neighbors.

Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.

In any civil society, there's a serious problem when confidence in the rule of law is shaken.

Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.

Ultimately, it is only a powerful civil society movement which can break the vicious cycle of corruption in any society.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

I will work in partnership with the Government, all political parties, and civil society to safeguard and advance the future of all Singaporeans.

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society.

In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governour of the Universe: And if a member of Civil Society, do it with a saving of his allegiance to the Universal Sovereign. 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.

In a pluralistic society like ours, I think the ability to resist hate comes from cultivating a civil society that, on the one hand, nurtures the freedom of each group to pursue their faith and distinctive way of life, while, at the same time, fostering the ties that bind us together into a genuine broader community.

In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the civil rights movement has been delusion.

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.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

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.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and wives, parents, friends and citizens, and by the knowledge of what we do and what we are makes a difference to those around us. (...) Renewing society's resources of moral energy is the program, urgent but achievable.

You either have a civil society or you don't.

The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness - doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement. [Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.

Islamic extremism is the prime enemy of civil society and social peace, both in Italy and in Israel.

Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.

As a civil society, our task is to pressure governments into democratic changes.

There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.

I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.

Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.

The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.

Think of civil society and the state as joined in a marriage of necessity. You already know who the wife is, the one who is supposed to love, cherish and obey: that's civil society. Think of the state as the domineering husband who expects to have a monopoly on power, on violence, on planning and policymaking.

One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

Civil society begins with the family.

That a country has a strong civil society is, I believe, particularly necessary for good development.

If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice.

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of 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.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

Man cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him when he refuses without reason to do his duty. Society, on the other hand, cannot defraud man of his God-granted right... Nor can society systematically void these rights by making their use impossible.

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.

Our policies should be to help develop civil society and increase contacts with people.

[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.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

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. And to the same Divine Author of every good and perfect gift we are indebted for all those privileges and advantages, religious as well as civil, which are so richly enjoyed in this favored land.

We strongly believe that individual advocates play an important role in developing a civil society.