It is not merely a beautiful yet empty phrase. Instead, civil society is a necessity without which democracy may lose any foreseeable future and slip to political technocracy. Civil society is a silent daily referendum about a major social contract to be together making democracy work and shaping the future of one’s country.  Civil society appears as an undeclared, though real, solidarity and as a direct expression and manifestation of a common future project. The mundane forms of civil society are community, powers of association, and trust. In case the state is in crisis, civil society remains the most powerful antidote to it and the most reliable instrument to repair it due to its ability to organize individuals and groups as a committed political community. It is a form of silent patriotism whose essence lies in the ethics of commitment and critical attachment to one’s country.