The United Nations is actually a mid-20th century institution and much weaker than it was when it was originally created, because governments… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The old university attitude of 'publish or perish' has changed. Students and academics are realising that institutions such as Imperial College are… — Chris Toumazou Copy Share Image
In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Religions are institutions that push you up the mountain and then they have their fantasies about the spirit. I mean they try… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures,… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to… — Richard Halverson Copy Share Image
Every man who loves his country, or wishes well to the best interests of society, will show himself a decided friend not… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
If Christian people work together, they can succeed during this decade in winning back control of the institutions that have been taken… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The word ‘philanthropy’ brings up an image of somebody who’s had an illustrious career, has retired and is giving to highly established… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
“He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization…The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other,… — H. Allen Smith Copy Share Image
Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The president [of American research institute] can act as the CEO and make a firm decision about the long-term development of the… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special… — John Bright Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time. Happiness is the state of a human being… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which everything-our discourses,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My favorite quote is Thomas Jefferson's "The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time." Well, he was… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
We do not read (the law) to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution's need to maintain order and safety, ...… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive. We all may talk… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions:… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image