A disciplined and morally upright nation is built by disciplined and morally upright institutions. — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it? — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
There are a large number of institutions in this country which we should not politicise. — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
Institutions are becoming naked, and if you're going to be naked … fitness is no longer optional. If you're going to be… — Don Tapscott Copy Share Image
“When a man begins to feel that he is the only one whou can lead in this republic, he is guilty of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
If somehow every volunteer vanished tomorrow, so much of this country would come to a standstill: schools, hospitals and libraries. You can't… — Al Roker Copy Share Image
The downfall of democratic institutions in Russia doesn't add to the self-confidence of either [Vladimir] Putin or his friends, as the loss… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps,… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I just think we all distrust people and institutions much more than we once did. And we tend to think elites run… — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans or the English which have a long history of continuous creation, is that… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The founders of the great world religions, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu, Mohammed, all seem to have striven for a worldwide brotherhood of… — Geoffrey Gorer Copy Share Image
After the risky mortgage-lending practices fostered by government intervention led to massive defaults and foreclosures that caused financial institutions to collapse or… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The choreographed standing and clapping of one side of the room - while the other side sits - is unbecoming of a… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . .… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
we have complaints that institutional dominance of the stock market has put 'the small investor at a disadvantage because he can't compete… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Marriage is under attack from so many different areas. There should be benefits associated with married people. Life is unfair. Maybe you… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations,… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We are victims of - the DNC and other institutions are victims of a cybercrime led by thugs. — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it. — Shere Hite Copy Share Image
Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things. — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness. — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image