45 Civil Society Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Edmund Burke

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No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change. Joe Biden

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Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized. Ban Ki-moon

Future Government Will Building National Society Local Local Government Sector Cities Civil Civil Society Open Dialogue Private Private Sector Branches Sustainable Regional Stakeholders Poor Engagement Including Among Marginalized Need

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. A. Bartlett Giamatti

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Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society. Alexander McCall Smith

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Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society. Ban Ki-moon

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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream. Fatema Mernissi

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. Pope Benedict XVI

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. Ban Ki-moon

Business Community United Nations Society Civil Civil Society Properly Main Support Learned Without Years Governments Five Nations Cannot Business Community Communities Lessons Function United Last Need

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction. Daisaku Ikeda

We need to understand why there is a void of participation in public life from the Muslim community and why it is a growing issue, and we need to understand the impact of this on wider civil society. Dominic Grieve

Life Community Society Muslim Civil Impact Civil Society Void Participation Understand Issue Public Public Life Growing Why Wider Need

Pastors can lead the way in motivating the faithful to wise stewardship of their citizenship responsibilities. Without a healthy culture and civil society, limited government and ordered liberty will be impossible. Edwin Meese

Government Wise Culture Liberty Impossible Will Faithful Limited Government Healthy Society Way Responsibilities Citizenship Civil Civil Society Lead Stewardship Without Limited Motivating Pastors Ordered

So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding. Geoff Mulgan

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We need a mobilized and active civil society using its purchasing power to demand sustainable products and practices. It is also essential that governments commit to the future, creating fiscal and regulatory conditions for sustainable policies to thrive. Guilherme Leal

Future Thrive Power Active Society Purchasing Purchasing Power Civil Civil Society Demand Also Policies Practices Fiscal Conditions Governments Commit Essential Sustainable Creating Products Regulatory Using Need

At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy. John Hutton

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. John Polanyi

Responsibility Sense United Nations Society Unmistakable Thousands Civil Civil Society Voices Shared New Nations Agencies International United

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. Joshua Lederberg

Single Think Society Enormous Weapon Civil Able Civil Society Risk Individuals Isolated Inflict Whole Base Nuclear Lunatic Nuclear Weapon Imagine Harm

We as the governments, workers, employers and civil society must declare a war on child labour. This war cannot be won without strong, committed, coherent, and well-resourced worldwide movement. Equally needed is a genuine and active coordination between intergovernmental agencies at the highest level. Kailash Satyarthi

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So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government. Leila Janah

We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity. There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region. Mel Martinez

Needs Vision Opportunity Focus Building Society Latin Latin American Ways Civil Civil Society Comprehensive More Economic Economic Opportunity New Look Policy American Lack Different Region Infrastructure American Policy Bold Foster Need

The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their enforcement mostly on the activism of a global civil society movement. Michael Ignatieff

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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. Michael Novak

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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. Michelle Bachelet

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