We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that can be done within the framework of existing institutions which would be very valuable for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken. — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The West has institutions that can punish the misconduct of individuals. What drove Rwanda and Africa into decline was the fact that… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I know all the problems of the schools. They're rigid, they're bureaucratic, they've got a lot of problems. But it's such an… — Edward Zigler Copy Share Image
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
When corruption is king, there is no accountability of leadership and no trust in authority. Society devolves to the basic units of… — Nuhu Ribadu Copy Share Image
“As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy with which we all begin as children,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If the Africans and Arabs were ruling Spain from 711 to 1492, had they destroyed the Catholic church, they still would be… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“More intriguingly, in poll after poll, when Americans are asked what public institutions they most respect, three bodies are always at the… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware… — Cornelius Castoriadis Copy Share Image
He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Marriage exists as an institution of exploitation, it is not togetherness. That is why no happiness comes out of it as a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium. — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Congress created Fannie Mae in 1938 and Freddie Mac in 1970. For many years, these institutions prudently pursued their core mission of… — Jerome Powell 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
Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
