In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life… — Os Guinness 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
The more we demand that institutions allow us to be who we are, the more they're going to have to. — Stephen Herbits Copy Share Image
Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it.… — Evan Wolfson Copy Share Image
The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The less a person knows about the workings of the social institutions in his society, the more he must trust those who… — Thomas Szasz 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
Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I… — Todd Tiahrt Copy Share Image
Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar… — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Rule by the statist elite is not benign or simply a matter of who happens to be in office: it is rule… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions. — Nelson Mandela 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
We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as… — Mortimer Adler 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
We can no longer be complacent with China's rise because so many institutions are making money in the Chinese market. — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
