Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
NVC can be effectively applied at all levels of communication and in diverse situations: intimate relationships, families, schools, organizations and institutions, therapy… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
Schools are compulsory for about ten years of a person's life. They are, perhaps, the only compulsory institutions for all citizens, although… — Marie Brennan Copy Share Image
I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That's in keeping with most… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has… — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central… — Bob Schaffer Copy Share Image
There's a nice clear difference between real protection (wash your hands, or wear a condom) and the fake protection offered by institutions… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
The evil of the Holocaust was realized through the exercise of a certain kind of power - coercive power. It was a… — Mary Jo Leddy Copy Share Image
Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government; for the… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense of centralized… — John Turner Copy Share Image
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I actually thought that the marketplace was pretty imbalanced when the consumer bureau was first created and financial institutions did not have… — Richard Cordray Copy Share Image
But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
“Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities?… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I just don't accept that there is a trade off between trade and democracy ... what we've got now is an institution… — Ruth Davidson Copy Share Image
One of the worst features of all the plans for sharing wealth and equalizing or guaranteeing incomes is that they lose sight… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Look at any financial institution, at any bank. They're all photocopies of each other. There's no diversity of institutions and even less… — Bernard Lietaer Copy Share Image
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I couldn't possibly explain why the common person would be against something like that. It's all rooted in sexual hang-ups. The whole… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
