My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For many Americans, 2016 will be remembered as a terrible year. It was a year in which the lack of faith in… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly. — Jo Ann Davis Copy Share Image
Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The slightest sign of stability is used by local authoritarian leaders to bargain for the sympathies of Western countries that are, for… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation..., I fervently hope that the question is… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The child says, "Well geesh, the institutions that I'm supposed to respect - the church and the government - they're telling me… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
The British are proud of their ability to create a muddle and then muddle through all difficulties. I must shake the British… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
There is no reason why a company like Monsanto, for example, that is pushing GMOs, cannot go to Kenya, partner with the… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is an opportunist, mostly supported by the financial institutions. He had no positions on anything. He's very intelligent. If you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of institutions in the economic world which depart from the simple price/market model which I worked on in… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
What drives me is a sense of urgency. We live in frightening times. Progress towards gender equality and vital battles to end… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We don't have the necessary laws or powers to deal with failing non-bank institutions. If they're a big bank, the depositor has… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
“Relatedly, an increasingly horizontal structure of learning puts pressure on how learning institutions-schools,” — Cathy N. Davidson Copy Share Image
An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise… — James Cook Copy Share Image
Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The budget targets imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, combined with the effects of the devaluation, trigger the collapse of public investment. — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image