School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this… — Ivan Illich 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly under crisis… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
I'll tell you the truth - I went to a women's college, Barnard, the most selective college for women in America today.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Through its imperialist system Britain brought about untold suffering of millions of people. And this is an historical fact. To be able… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them… — Douglas Massey Copy Share Image
In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
It's difficult to get a job and people stay in school longer because they're employed as teaching assistants or instructors by their… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the… — John Stuart Mill 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
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
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
Jamaica is more than just the 'brand' the world recognizes so well; it's a place of pride for the people who live… — Portia Simpson-Miller Copy Share Image
The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
You need some inequality to grow... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
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
I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“Surrounding every technology are institutions whose organization—not to mention their reason for being—reflects the world-view promoted by the technology.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image