One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
While religious institutions should be able to pick and choose which unions they bless, civil governments should issue marriage licenses to all… — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
We can make American governing institutions better, but we can't make them better if nobody wants to go into them because we're… — Amy McGrath Copy Share Image
The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it.… — Evan Wolfson Copy Share Image
We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to… — Matthew Crawford Copy Share Image
The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that many of the mainstream white institutions tend to be cosmetic and symbolic when it comes to including African-Americans,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
I think of no news to tell you. It is a serene summer day here, all above the snow. The hens steal… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The biggest issue for me is whether large numbers of Americans can begin to think that government can actually help make the… — George Packer Copy Share Image
It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love Not… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way… — Anatoliy Golitsyn Copy Share Image
The fact is that you can be a Nazi living in a little trailer in the middle of Montana and as awful… — Louis Theroux Copy Share Image
So: if the chronic inflation undergone by Americans, and in almost every other country, is caused by the continuing creation of new… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Abandoned by the existing political system, young people in Oakland, California, New York City, Quebec and numerous other cities throughout the globe… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The IMF is a more complicated issue. I think there is a broad sentiment among both the left and the right that… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We have been using foreign affairs ministries to address security issues, but this practice is outdated. It's time to assign the handling… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was… — Jay Hernandez Copy Share Image
A lot of ambitious code has been written into the law for those and we will have to see if it actually… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
The problem is not the sentiment, it's the execution. When a company makes a mistake, the individual benefits because they've learned how… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and,… — John Kitzhaber Copy Share Image
My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to… — Chris Hughes Copy Share Image
Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into… — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to… — Nicolle Wallace Copy Share Image
