You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts. — Keith Preston Copy Share Image
The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I'm very optimistic, but I'm optimistic about individuals, not institutions. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men. — George Iles Copy Share Image
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now. — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting. — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
I think that rather than saying that Occupy Wall Street has died, we can say that they're in the process of understanding… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race. — Hugh Price Hughes Copy Share Image
People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions… — Joan Konner Copy Share Image
I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. I proposed a constitutional… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished:… — Milton Meltzer Copy Share Image
The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But if there were two dogs left in the universe and it were up to us as to whether they were allowed… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of institutions in the economic world which depart from the simple price/market model which I worked on in… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Quality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smoky windows and oceans of words, and he sees that… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Belonging to the Catholic Church gives your support to an organization that conceals and protects child rapists. Again, not as a few… — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I think the other side of this is in this balance between the social state and the punishing state, remember, the social… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
On this site we're going to build an Eye and Ear Hospital. This is going to be a sight for sore eyes. — Morrie Ryskind Copy Share Image
Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium. — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope. — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
The biggest problem Haiti has is the weakness of its public institutions. — Jovenel Moise Copy Share Image
Preventing conflict means going back to basics - strengthening institutions and building resilient societies. — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
