Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I'm an FDR Democrat, and I really believe that the most important thing is the institutions of political parties, and engaging in… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
Legitimate rage on the part of working men and women is directed not only towards government but, I think quite correctly, towards… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a… — Sandra Postel Copy Share Image
Any person, institution or organization that conveys bodies or parts of bodies into or out of the state for medical education or… — Charlie Crist Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I… — Todd Tiahrt Copy Share Image
Exclusion of just one class of citizens from receiving a marriage license based upon the perceived 'threat' they pose to the marital… — Terence C. Kern Copy Share Image
Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Respect for human rights requires transparent and accountable institutions and governance as well as the effective participation of all individuals and civil… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I'm an enormous product of my century, I'm a product of my upbringing. I was not aware of the fact that I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Christianity is no mere scheme of doctrine or of ethical practice, but is instead a kind of miracle, a power out of… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous.… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause… — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
As the industry has matured, real estate has become a very accepted investment. Institutions have used core investments to get comfortable with… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
What you're seeing is a loss of confidence in institutions and their legitimacy because they are not seen as delivering. It's hardly… — Jonathan Wood Copy Share Image
Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Google Apps for Education is a suite of applications intended to be helpful to higher level educational institutions, but in the long… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Plato assumes somehow that government is a way in which you put unselfish and ungreedy men in charge of selfish and greedy… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion:… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
I did an expose of an institution for the population with developmental disabilities, and the institutions were closed as a result of… — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
In the major institutions of education, government, science, and the arts, we are witnessing the imposition of a post-Christian view of life.… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's the nature of government, to build enduring institutions, structures that stay long after their purpose is over. If you pay people… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as values in Sharia law, that is what I was trying to explain, it's understood in thousands of… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
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