Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political tool.

Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.

No man in civil society can be exempted from the laws of it: for if any man may do what he thinks fit, and there be no appeal on earth, for redress or security against any harm he shall do; I ask, whether he be not perfectly still in the state of nature, and so can be no part or member of that civil society; unless any one will say, the state of nature and civil society are one and the same thing, which I have never yet found any one so great a patron of anarchy as to affirm.

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

There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.

There was never a situation where the formal political map was in such disharmony from Israeli civil society.