A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If institutions don't grow, they... well, I don't know what happens to them, because they always grow. I suppose the point is… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy mortgages from banks and other lenders, providing those financial institutions with capital to make new loans. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“The answer is thoughtful, plural institutions: an unending labor of differentiated creation. This is a matter of imagination, maturity, and survival. We” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship… — Robert Teeter Copy Share Image
It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no organizations and institutions that are worthwhile in terms of fighting for and dying for unless there is some individual… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . .… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
Our soldiers in another area were attacked chemically. Our soldiers - they went to the hospital as casualties because of chemical weapons,… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, academies - that are rooted in the… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
The unfortunate truth is that Russia was the foreign power that systematically attacked our democratic institutions in 2016. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
We're charged by Congress with regulating financial institutions. We take that mission seriously. We are tough supervisors and regulators. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
I see fashion as going on par with all the other cultural institutions here. Ballet, theater, opera - I don't see fashion… — Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Copy Share Image
Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A new institution with new design, structure, body, soul, new thinking, and direction will replace the Planning Commission. It will be one… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I think you'll have plenty of scrutiny as how the money's invested. I mean, just like the RFC. When the RFC operated,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People… — Don Tapscott Copy Share Image
A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
We need sobriety, rationality, and civility in the discussions on the regulation of financial institutions so that the banks can return in… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained. — David Frum Copy Share Image
There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No… — John Gardner Copy Share Image