We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing… — Terence McKenna 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
The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The way in which a society organizes the life of its members ... is one "project" of realization among others. But once… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The slightest sign of stability is used by local authoritarian leaders to bargain for the sympathies of Western countries that are, for… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I regard the Masonic institution as one of the means ordained by the Supreme Architect to enable mankind to work out the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They've tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn't they try to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“What if good institutions were in fact the product of good intentions? What if the cynicism that is supposed to be rigor… — Marilynne Robinson 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
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so. — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
For years, I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions in the South, a little change here, a little change… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
It is rare to find an established community of Christians that encourages radical expressions of following Jesus. The natural conservatism of institutions… — Michael Spencer Copy Share Image
Even if it remained for 10 more years, it is not the commission that will solve the justice situation, it is us,… — Otto Perez Molina Copy Share Image
The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image