Rebecca Solnit Quotes About Civil Society

Quotes about: Civil Society

• Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Water, Diversity, Design

  Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.9, Univ of California Press

• Think of civil society and the state as joined in a marriage of necessity. You already know who the wife is, the one who is supposed to love, cherish and obey: that's civil society. Think of the state as the domineering husband who expects to have a monopoly on power, on violence, on planning and policymaking.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Husband, Thinking, Wife

• I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Latin, America, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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