Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
If there is one thing we need to avoid, it is competition between E.U. institutions. — Miroslav Lajcak Copy Share Image
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery? — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Management that wants to change an institution must first show that it loves that institution. — John Tusa Copy Share Image
There are only a handful of educational institutions that can be called emblems of a Thinking India. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now. — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only… — Ken Calvert Copy Share Image
As Americans, we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
Every now and then, a technology comes along that is so profound, so powerful, so universal, that its impact will change everything.… — Lou Gerstner Copy Share Image
Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing,… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the Fed's large-scale asset purchases have caused major increases in a number of asset prices in the… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation,… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
How can there be methods and systems to arrive at something that is living? To that which is static, fixed, dead, there… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Without question, the balance of power on the planet today lies in the hands of business. Corporations rival governments in wealth, influence,… — Ben Cohen Copy Share Image
Financial institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia] — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Once you've been in a mental institution, people are going to look at you funny. — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right. — Richard Pryor Copy Share Image
When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image