Cumulatively, American society is sliding toward a new form of 'authoritarian democracy'. Elections continue, free speech is generally protected, institutions operate in… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Rest assured that our work is not over because our work has never been only hunting Nazi war criminals. The Simon Wiesenthal… — Marvin Hier Copy Share Image
Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property,… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection. — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that… — Walter Rauschenbusch 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
..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Even a casual observer can see that not one of the systems, institutions, and devices that our species has put into place… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have… — Christopher Wills Copy Share Image
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
By my count, the Deputy Prime Minister has sworn an oath of loyalty and service to Her Majesty no fewer than four… — Elsie Wayne Copy Share Image
The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
