Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy mortgages from banks and other lenders, providing those financial institutions with capital to make new loans. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
The budget targets imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, combined with the effects of the devaluation, trigger the collapse of public investment. — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
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
Imbued with the desire to secure for the German people the great religious, moral, and cultural values rooted in the two Christian… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There's quite obviously the desire to open the rule sets that allow for inclusion or disclusion. I think that my hope would… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is worth noting that the people today who so vehemently wish to sweep religion from all public spaces and institutions are… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
The fact is that you can be a Nazi living in a little trailer in the middle of Montana and as awful… — Louis Theroux Copy Share Image
The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way… — Anatoliy Golitsyn Copy Share Image
It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love Not… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
The biggest issue for me is whether large numbers of Americans can begin to think that government can actually help make the… — George Packer Copy Share Image
So: if the chronic inflation undergone by Americans, and in almost every other country, is caused by the continuing creation of new… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
We only have one penal code in the United States, and it applies in every single state, every city, no matter who… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
I went off to college, a good, middle-class, very proper college, a Brethren institution, where two years of Bible study are required… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
We have jobs in Maharashtra but outsiders are getting them. They are also getting admission in educational institutions depriving our children of… — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect… — Robert Teeter Copy Share Image
We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else.… — Margot Kidder 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
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 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
Well, if you were the American public, you saw a catastrophe. In general, you would say, "The biggest institutions of America -… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I think the philosophy in our public schools, and many other institutions today, is that a dose of God is more hazardous… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do. — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures. — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
