When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
This is where I think policies do need to be somewhat race-specific, is making sure that institutions are not discriminatory. So you've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Liberals don't care. Their approach is to rip out society's foundations without asking if they serve any purpose. Why do we have… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
The immense wealth of doctrine and institutions can become a handicap if we are trying to present all of that to a… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities…The so-called clergy stupefy the masses…They befog the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always… — Edna St. Vincent Millay 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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
It is one thing for the institution to offer space for serious engagement, in thought and action, and to encourage free and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A single currency entails a fixed interest rate, which means countries can't manage their own currency to suit their own needs. You… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
As I write in 2012 we certainly do not believe that it is over yet, and the worst may be yet to… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The Australian Army is a highly respected National institution because of its people. It's all about the people. If we communicate, and… — Ken Gillespie Copy Share Image
The rank of a university is similar to an index number say like the NASDAQ index. I don't understand how you can… — Henry Rosovsky 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
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
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
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
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
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