In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major… — Mike Rogers Copy Share Image
Traditional nursing facilities are sterile institutions rather than homes - which is why many Americans do not want to live in one… — Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Copy Share Image
Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The Costa Rica experience shows that with dedicated resources, creative institutions, and a sound legal framework, deforestation can be reversed and forest… — Bruno Stagno Ugarte Copy Share Image
In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The aim of open government is to take advantage of the know-how and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside government institutions to work… — Beth Simone Noveck Copy Share Image
Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image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
The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position.… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need… — Harry Golden Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that it's right to view this as excluding a particular group. When the institution of marriage developed historically, people… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good. — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
When General Musharraf took over, the Bar Association was among the first of some of the institutions that said they would not… — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
“An institution can call itself by whatever name it wants, but if it lacks a strong self-correcting mechanism, it is not a… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
As the United Nations pushes for jurisdiction over the globe, it is important to remember how it has acted in Bosnia. The… — Wendy McElroy Copy Share Image
One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house,… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The Christian church does not ask the U. S. Supreme Court, or any other human court, what marriage is. Marriage is a… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Only the Communist Party, as the institution that brings together the revolutionary vanguard and will always guarantee the unity of Cubans, can… — Raul Castro Copy Share Image
Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The lesson is obvious. True missionaries concentrate on doing the work of Mark 16:15 rather than operating social-welfare programs. True missionaries serve… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
The role of the press and the protections which we afford it are today more important than ever before, because we dwell… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter. — Norman Ornstein Copy Share Image
The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most… — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel Copy Share Image
Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact,… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila… — Jack Newfield Copy Share Image
When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back. — William Greider Copy Share Image