Coolness is temporary. You can't capture it or create it, it has to be discovered. It has to do with the people… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The mission [of institution] won't change. It will continue to be what it is: to spread the practice of deep listening and… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Gadhafi has established no national institutions, not even allowing a fake parliament of the Mubarak or Ben Ali variety that could perhaps… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government. — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
You [as a president] have to have a strong team around you. You have to have respect for institutions and the process… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There's a lot of me in it. But the character is more egotistical. I'm also egotistical, but not the way the character… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I always enjoy the job and the work that I do, because that's the condition that I attach in accepting any job.… — Sri Mulyani Indrawati Copy Share Image
It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage… — Kendrick Meek Copy Share Image
African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against… — Laurence M. Keitt Copy Share Image
The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced… — Franz Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and… — Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard Copy Share Image
I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When you see a Donald Trump and a Bernie Sanders, very unconventional candidates, have considerable success, then obviously there's something there that's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . .… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony.… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
It is wrong when we, in effect, throw safe and sound financial institutions into the same category with banks and lenders that… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was… — Gbenga Akinnagbe Copy Share Image
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are… — Plato Copy Share Image
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren't the kind of institutions I had in mind. — Robert Stacy McCain Copy Share Image
Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world? — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock… — Amar Bose Copy Share Image
The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Many of the local institutions and politicians and veterinarians are involved in illegal trade. To crack that down, it's a big crime… — Veronika Varekova Copy Share Image
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
People who don't see themselves reflected in an institution tend not to associate themselves with those institutions. — Annamie Paul Copy Share Image
Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image