Although we may not all admit it, anyone who works and has a life beyond family and close friends .......has a political life. Even among friends and those who may belong to a religious community have a need; up to an extent, to be political. Friendships and social relationships are truly cherished.......mainly because they are not forced. I know, at times it seems like they are. But they are not brutal.
"There are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state -- what we can call political society. And voluntarily, through the private interaction of individuals and associations -- what we can call civil society. ... In a civil society, you make the decision. In a political society, someone else does. ... Civil society is based on reason, eloquence, and persuasion, which is to say voluntarism. Political society, on the other hand, is based on force."
Edward H. Crane Founder and president of the Cato Institute
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