Civil Society Quotes

• Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of Good and Evill. For a man's Conscience and his Judgement are the same thing, and as the Judgement, so also the Conscience may be erroneous.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Judge
  • Conscience
  • Doctrine

• Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Justice
  • Punishment
  • Civil Society

• The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Culture
  • Civil Society
  • Sceptics

• 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.

  

  Bob Maguire
  • Change
  • Achieve
  • Crimes

• 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
  • Law
  • Democratization
  • Civil Society

• 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.

  

  Ed Crane
  • Government
  • Constitution
  • Congress

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

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Husband
  • Politics
  • President