Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Close the weak banks and impose serious capital requirements on the strong ones...You see, it may sound hard-hearted, but you cannot keep… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Transnational organized cybercriminal groups have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and ordinary citizens. — Dmitri Alperovitch Copy Share Image
There should be resolutions adopted in top international institutions, which are binding on all states and governments in the world, to forbid… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Climate alarmists believe in their own omnipotency, in knowing better than millions of rationally behaving men and women what is right or… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
The basic problem with the new species of global institutions is that they have not yet become aware of themselves as living.… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Over time I began to realize that the level of cinema criticism in the last part of XX century in the United… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
When a republic's most venerable institutions no longer operate as they were intended, it becomes possible for small cabals to usurp power,… — T. D. Allman Copy Share Image
If the six-nation forums dealing with Iran and North Korea suffer comparable failures, the consequence will be a world of unchecked proliferation,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
For openers, marriage is neither a matter of politics, nor is it a matter of social policy. Marriage is defined by the… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle...… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
We are capable of regaining our reverence for life, of replacing the drive to conquer with the will to cooperate, of remaking… — Elisabet Sahtouris Copy Share Image
There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the… — Nicholas Trist Copy Share Image
In some industries, we refer to risk taking as 'research and development.' At financial institutions, we often take risk by investing in… — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
We are rather candid with them about the nature of their political processes and the state of development of their institutions, but… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image