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
The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If the blessings of our political and social condition have not been too highly estimated, we cannot well overrate the responsibility and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Justification, in terms of the broadening of freedom, for any particular form of institution of property must be argued in terms of… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
He quietly groaned. Again and again, he’d witnessed this phenomenon with his friends. They got married. They were happy in that sated,… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
I think communities of faith are extremely important in this question. I think that all faith communities share a common and unusual… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates. — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped… — Frederick Stanley Maude Copy Share Image
Brandon McCsw says the Western civilization was created in medieval Europe for the forms of thought and action in Modern Europe and… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Democracy takes work. That's the thing we're really finding out, that, you know, in many ways, you know, the past two decades… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity.… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
