Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. — Kofi Annan
A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not. — Jonathan Sacks
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. — Charles W. Pickering
Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing — Henry Mintzberg
At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate. — Clay Shirky
In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence. — Jamsetji Tata
Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy. — John C. Sawhill
No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means. — Aneurin Bevan
Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action. — Paul Krugman
It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance. — Baldwin Spencer
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. — Aristotle
Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly. — Vaclav Havel
As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish. — Justin Welby
Short Civil Society Quotes
We need to build opt-in society, outside the U.S., run by technology. — Balaji Srinivasan
Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society. — George Washington
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. — Bertrand Russell
An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy. — Thomas Jefferson
Top 10 Civil Society Quotes
You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged. — Bryan Stevenson
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. — Frederic Bastiat
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute. — Julian Bond
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society. — Walter Gropius
When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan. — William Paterson
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. — Vince Lombardi
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing. — John Adams
The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children. — Nelson Mandela
The ability to engage in reasoned discourse, even when you passionately disagree with someone, is the hallmark of a civilized society. — Bret Weinstein
There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other. — John C. Calhoun
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
Civil Society And Democracy Quotes
I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it. — Paul Krugman
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. — Christiane Amanpour
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society. — George Soros
Dont look for society to give you permission to be yourself.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. — Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
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. — Vaclav Havel
In a democracy, it is the people who are sovereign. Therefore, with regard to the promotion of democracy at the local, country and regional levels, civil society must have a stronger voice in all political processes. — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Society is not only defined by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.
One cannot live in society and be free from society. — Vladimir Lenin
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members — Pearl S. Buck
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole. — Arnold J. Toynbee
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. — Pratibha Patil
Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society. — David Hume
What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours. — William Cowper
It is stimulating to live in a society that is not standardized or mechanized, and is free from monotony. — R.K. Narayan
Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world's peoples. — Aga Khan IV
Love has an immense ability to help heal the devastating wounds that life sometimes deals us. Love also enhances our sense of connection to the larger world. Loving responsiveness is the foundation of a truly compassionate, civilized society. — Sue Johnson
The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have lost much by subjecting themselves to what they call the laws and regulations of civilized socieities. — Tomochichi
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been, and ever will be pursued, until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. — James Madison
If we believe in the rebirth of our civilization... then clearly this renaissance must begin in the chambers of our own hearts... We cannot wait for society to change, or for our institutions to be renewed. We, as individuals, must assume responsibility for our own personal transformation. — Georg Feuerstein
Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization. — Margaret Sanger
Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself. — Julian Bond
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. — Ayn Rand
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. — Jill Lepore
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting. — Ingrid Newkirk
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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. — Alexander Hamilton
Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society. — Joan Ganz Cooney
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. — Jacques Ellul
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. — Mark Skousen
The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth. This is not about Russian ads. This is a global problem. It is eroding the core foundations of how people behave by and between each other. — Chamath Palihapitiya
To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life. — Jon Evans
Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took 700 years to advance from the Magna Carta onward. The terrorists have already won the political and ideological war with one terrorist act. It is mindboggling that we are that weak as a society. — Rocco Galati
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both India and Pakistan. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is controlled by Indian armed forces. This is feeding right back into society even in the domain of elementary civil rights. — Noam Chomsky
In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group; rather, he is a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience. — Mark Levin
Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever existed on the face of the earth. — James Henry Hammond
Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If the terrorist succeeds, he has won and the whole of free society has lost. — Margaret Thatcher
No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain
amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory. — Joe Rogan
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