Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I remain a religious agnostic, but, unlike most atheists, I not only am not hostile to traditional religion but consider it a… — Guenter Lewy Copy Share Image
The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
As the industry has matured, real estate has become a very accepted investment. Institutions have used core investments to get comfortable with… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause… — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous.… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
Christianity is no mere scheme of doctrine or of ethical practice, but is instead a kind of miracle, a power out of… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I'm an enormous product of my century, I'm a product of my upbringing. I was not aware of the fact that I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I did an expose of an institution for the population with developmental disabilities, and the institutions were closed as a result of… — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion:… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
Plato assumes somehow that government is a way in which you put unselfish and ungreedy men in charge of selfish and greedy… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Google Apps for Education is a suite of applications intended to be helpful to higher level educational institutions, but in the long… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
What you're seeing is a loss of confidence in institutions and their legitimacy because they are not seen as delivering. It's hardly… — Jonathan Wood Copy Share Image
The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine,… — David A. Freedman Copy Share Image
I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Extreme weather events continue to grow more frequent and intense in rich and poor countries alike, not only devastating lives, but also… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
[In the event of war, Americans would] resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If we believe in the rebirth of our civilization... then clearly this renaissance must begin in the chambers of our own hearts...… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The only kind of marriage liberals had ever glorified is the gay kind. But thanks to Michael Schiavo, the sanctity of marriage… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The debate corporation is a corporation. It's funded by corporations. It's relayed by media corporations to the public. It's created by the… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Dillinger at one point was the second most popular man in America after President Roosevelt. And he was a national hero for… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
Over the longer term, the institutions and powers of the EU will continue to expand and certain policymaking powers, heretofore vested in… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
I get most my information about what's happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The faltering of our suburban living arrangement is probably certain. The response of suburbanites is not. Will they elect maniacs who promise… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They may… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do not know what will happen in China politically. I do know that it is impossible to maintain the communist system… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image