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— Mary Robinson"We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it."
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But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.
— Roger Williams
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In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands.
— Anthony de Jasay
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