
Will China Rule the World? http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik39
Conditions of Liberty (1994)
Context: Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely, rather than imposed by birth or sustained by awesome ritual. You can join the Labour Party without slaughtering a sheep...
Will China Rule the World? http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik39
“In life it is training rather than birth which counts.”
Book I, ch. 3.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
"Mutilated Humanity" http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/second/montagu.html (1991)
Letter Accepting 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prizefrom (2018)
India: Urgent call to halt Odisha mega-steel project amid serious human rights concerns http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13805&LangID=E.
2013
“bent on destroying the autonomy of the institutions of civil society”
How Civilizations Fall
Socialism (1922), Epilogue (1947)
Context: State and government are the social apparatus of violent coercion and repression. Such an apparatus, the police power, is indispensable in order to prevent anti-social individuals and bands from destroying social co-operation. Violent prevention and suppression of anti-social activities benefit the whole of society and each of its members. But violence and oppression are none the less evils and corrupt those in charge of their application. It is necessary to restrict the power of those in office lest they become absolute despots. Society cannot exist without an apparatus of violent coercion. But neither can it exist if the office holders are irresponsible tyrants free to inflict harm upon those they dislike.
Scotland in the World Forum (February 4, 2008), Church of Scotland (May 25, 2009)
In a speech on Democratic Development, Pluralism and Civil Society delivered at the Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway (7 April 2005). http://www.akdn.org/speech/nobel-institute-oslo