It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness,… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I find it perfectly consistent for libertarians to operate on the municipal or county level, where they are close to the people… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
[Two of the most unpopular presidential candidates selected by the two parties in history] indicates that there is a lot of cynicism… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular… — William James Copy Share Image
Yesterday, voters in the state of Maine voted no to gay marriage, but yes to medical marijuana. That's right, people in Maine… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
It's been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind… — Ibrahim Hooper Copy Share Image
We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man… — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us,… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
The World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions virtually write economic policy and parliamentary legislation.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Way, way back in the day, like in the 1990s, if you wanted to tell everyone you ate waffles for breakfast, you… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Latin America was the most obedient follower of the neoliberal regime that was instituted by the United States, its allies and the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Those days are long gone. But our corporations haven't caught up with it. Our law firms, our higher education system, and our… — Vicki Donlan Copy Share Image
They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
It's a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention… — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me… — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Let us look at international institutions and trusts. Trusts have a certain roles and unless you define what their roles are, what… — Cyrus Pallonji Mistry Copy Share Image
I believe that political power exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions which look as if they have… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
... universal adoption of the institutions of the free society would better enable adaptation to climate both now and in the future.… — Julian Morris Copy Share Image
How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man feels at… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Quite simply, there can be no popular sovereignty without a real belief in the value of government. If government does not assume… — Charles Derber Copy Share Image
Without marriage there will be no misery - and no laughter either. There will be so much silence...it will be Nirvana on… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and… — Gary H. Stern Copy Share Image
A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
For all the venom and fear spewed at members of the 'religious right,' most of today's churches are left alone... the nonreligious… — Kay Coles James Copy Share Image
When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The church may update its techniques and methods, but it is always in service of the institutional organism. This is one of… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image