The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Private academic institutions admit the children of alumni because substantial parts of their operating budgets come from the financial contributions of alumni. — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve is one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples — Henri La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Coolness is temporary. You can't capture it or create it, it has to be discovered. It has to do with the people… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
NVC can be effectively applied at all levels of communication and in diverse situations: intimate relationships, families, schools, organizations and institutions, therapy… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That's in keeping with most… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Schools are compulsory for about ten years of a person's life. They are, perhaps, the only compulsory institutions for all citizens, although… — Marie Brennan Copy Share Image
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Surely there is a fitness in the institution of the Lord's Supper as a standing memorial by which the church at large… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
For 40 years, my argument has been that democratizing ownership of wealth has been the key to egalitarian society and the goals… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and… — Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard Copy Share Image
I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When you see a Donald Trump and a Bernie Sanders, very unconventional candidates, have considerable success, then obviously there's something there that's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are… — Plato Copy Share Image
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
It is wrong when we, in effect, throw safe and sound financial institutions into the same category with banks and lenders that… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was… — Gbenga Akinnagbe Copy Share Image
America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock… — Amar Bose Copy Share Image
Many of the local institutions and politicians and veterinarians are involved in illegal trade. To crack that down, it's a big crime… — Veronika Varekova Copy Share Image
Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
People who don't see themselves reflected in an institution tend not to associate themselves with those institutions. — Annamie Paul Copy Share Image
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world? — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren't the kind of institutions I had in mind. — Robert Stacy McCain Copy Share Image
