All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic… — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
Rather than working for all, power and public policy is increasingly influenced by wealthy elites that are able to bend the rules… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
There are not enough forums where institutions invite their workers to share their failures in a constructive way so the organization can… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
I'll tell you the truth - I went to a women's college, Barnard, the most selective college for women in America today.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
Over the moon about strong support for the National Health Service - an institution I will defend to my dying day, second… — Andy Burnham Copy Share Image
The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
It's true that when Christianity is socially powerful, faith can look from the outside as if it is mainly a matter of… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The child says, "Well geesh, the institutions that I'm supposed to respect - the church and the government - they're telling me… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I was nonverbal until I was four years old. Back in the 50s, I was the kind of kid they used to… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image