Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The one thing that I have learned from all these projects is that the key to transformative change is to make the… — Otto Scharmer Copy Share Image
But, gee," the other nurse says, "what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for,… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they… — George Will Copy Share Image
Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming.… — Moby Copy Share Image
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conservatism is about freedom, yes. But it is also about the institutions and attitudes that shape the responsible citizen, and ensure that… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
This kind of thing always amazed Ginny--people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn't see the… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those… — Gelsey Kirkland Copy Share Image
Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science:… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive…Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies… — Keith Bradsher Copy Share Image
To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act… — Chandra Talpade Mohanty Copy Share Image
I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about… — Andrew Eldritch Copy Share Image
There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
[I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens… — Austen Chamberlain Copy Share Image
It's not that you have jobs on the Internet, but the Internet makes it possible for more people to build their own… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin;… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The French under the old monarchy held it for a maxim that the king could do no wrong . The Americans entertain… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I want to always move forward with everything I am doing. So, I do the radio show, speak at universities and other… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (purportedly) is… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our… — Chittaranjan Das Copy Share Image
Putin has been - and with a lot of the groups, the conservative groups, the more extreme conservative groups that underlie Trump,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“The “non-profit” institution neither supplies goods or services nor controls. Its “product” is neither a pair of shoes nor an effective regulation.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want everyone to know that Russia in general and the Russian leadership, it is something effective and properly functioning. That the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something… — Teri Polo Copy Share Image
So they can create a class they don't like-here, homosexuals-or a class that they consider is suspect in the marriage category, and… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
... a nation to be strong, must be united; to be united, must be equal in condition; to be equal in condition,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
In the end, you do need institutions to transmit the faith for the long haul. That's why I make the case that,… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image