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
Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship… — Robert Teeter Copy Share Image
As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
If institutions don't grow, they... well, I don't know what happens to them, because they always grow. I suppose the point is… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The answer is thoughtful, plural institutions: an unending labor of differentiated creation. This is a matter of imagination, maturity, and survival. We” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Now, Jews integrate but they don't destroy their institutions. They don't close the synagogue. They don't stop having special Jewish graveyards. They… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I should be very sorry to see the United States holding anyone in confinement on account of any opinion that that person… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative,… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
I have no interest in increasing the size of government. I just want to make sure we have got a smart government… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these… — David Simon Copy Share Image
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
A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The unfortunate truth is that Russia was the foreign power that systematically attacked our democratic institutions in 2016. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
I see fashion as going on par with all the other cultural institutions here. Ballet, theater, opera - I don't see fashion… — Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Copy Share Image
Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We're charged by Congress with regulating financial institutions. We take that mission seriously. We are tough supervisors and regulators. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People… — Don Tapscott Copy Share Image
I think you'll have plenty of scrutiny as how the money's invested. I mean, just like the RFC. When the RFC operated,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We need sobriety, rationality, and civility in the discussions on the regulation of financial institutions so that the banks can return in… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained. — David Frum Copy Share Image
It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A new institution with new design, structure, body, soul, new thinking, and direction will replace the Planning Commission. It will be one… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a… — Pallam Raju Copy Share Image
If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image