#civil society

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society. ↗

— George McGovern

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

— Paddy Ashdown

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Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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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 Charles Polanyi

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Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society. ↗

— Paul Ryan

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I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked. ↗

— Charles Lawrence

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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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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

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I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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