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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The US two party system is very different, of course. Here the people decides about who should rule them, but it is… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
Some [people] think that there is a central organization responsible for all the institutions they wrongly think affiliated with me. They ignore… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
The union of a man and a woman is the most enduring human institution, honored and encouraged in all cultures and by… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In part, it's almost surely a failure of modern education, whether K through 12 or higher education, or really both. Barack Obama… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
Some people promote the idea that there can be two marriages, co-existing side by side, one heterosexual and one homosexual, without any… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
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
The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas,… — Dionysius of Halicarnassus Copy Share Image
Michigan State is always welcome at Ann Arbor. Your teams in all the various branches of athletics are more frequent visitors here… — Fielding H. Yost 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
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
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
[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
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
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
Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I'm quite encouraged by the finding that voters do value checks and balances and accountability. I think it's very heartening. And it… — Sylvia Lim Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The optimist in me hopes for a peripeteia and a closing scene of a sovereign, global-facing, dynamic U.K. liberated from the trammels… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
The United States genuinely sought to advance Russia's integration into the West and into international institutions. We genuinely sought to support Russia.… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image