Extreme weather events continue to grow more frequent and intense in rich and poor countries alike, not only devastating lives, but also… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine,… — David A. Freedman Copy Share Image
[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Over the longer term, the institutions and powers of the EU will continue to expand and certain policymaking powers, heretofore vested in… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Dillinger at one point was the second most popular man in America after President Roosevelt. And he was a national hero for… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
The debate corporation is a corporation. It's funded by corporations. It's relayed by media corporations to the public. It's created by the… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The only kind of marriage liberals had ever glorified is the gay kind. But thanks to Michael Schiavo, the sanctity of marriage… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
If we believe in the rebirth of our civilization... then clearly this renaissance must begin in the chambers of our own hearts...… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
As long as we see church life as a meeting we’ll miss its reality and its depth. If the truth were told,… — Wayne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
I'm talking about just as an ongoing, everyday matter of daily life, one of the most destructive things if not the most… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
People feel that European institutions are remote and bureaucratic, run by shady cosmopolitan elites. Britain is not absolutely exceptional because if you… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
In fact, the family as an institution is both oppressive and protective and, depending on the issue, is experienced sometimes one way,… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
The state should never have instituted and enforced legal property rights in persons, and should not have been in the business of… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing… — Cornelius Plantinga Copy Share Image
Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should… — Carter Glass Copy Share Image
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
If there is trouble in the country, neither I nor my people made it, and all that we have ever done, after… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Mysterious can be cool, if you're in Hollywood and everyone's happy. But it can be really bad if people perceive that the… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Those in positions of scientific authority in the West who have collaborated with this new Lysenkoism because they felt they must be… — Peter Ferrara Copy Share Image
The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a hypocrisy… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Progress is not possible without discipline. A nation, institution, family or individual can advance only by heeding the words of those who… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Leaders strengthen credibility by demonstrating that they are not in it for themselves, instead they have the interests of the institution, department,… — James M. Kouzes Copy Share Image
Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If conservatives come to control the White House and both Houses of Congress, there will be very little change in Hollywood, the… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other… — William A. Connelly Copy Share Image
Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
![“[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an…” quote by John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/464/john-stuart-mill-477_consciousness_i-put-the-question-directly-to-myself-su_1931447.png)
