We want the National Intelligence, we want the Police, we want the Scorpions, any other institutions, the tax people, and so on,… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it. — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image
We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to it's… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities… — Noam Chomsky 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
Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth; whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
The marketplace is a wondrous institution. It harnesses the self-interest of each of us and puts it to work for the benefit… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How can there be methods and systems to arrive at something that is living? To that which is static, fixed, dead, there… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“For Burke, almost everything that makes life worthwhile is a result of society, its inherited codes, knowledge, and institutions. These goods are… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
The government should cultivate the view also among the propertyless classes of the population, those who are the most numerous and the… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
In the current environment, attributing low student performance to teacher tenure is one of the great unproven causal links out there. The… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
So persuasive is the power of the institutions we have created that they shape not only our preferences but actually our sense… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The problem with monasteries, ashrams, convents is these institutions become extremely political. In other words, they're really small societies, and much of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks… — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
Many, many times I would shake my head in dismay at the goings-on in the House of Commons, but that never caused… — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
