I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When I say corrupting, I mean taking over and politicizing them for the express purpose of advancing the leftist agenda. And the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is much more suspicious of international institutions; much more skeptical of the contributions that America's traditional allies have made; more… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
Economic management involves the operation of economic frameworks in real time - for example, in the private sector, the management of complex… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people 'manage' everyone else. The new environment requires a shift… — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
One of my biggest regrets was the fact that as an institution and an international community we could not stop the war… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
If the blessings of our political and social condition have not been too highly estimated, we cannot well overrate the responsibility and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
As the vice-regents of God, we are to bring His truth and His … dominion … over our neighborhoods, our schools, our… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of… — John Hutton Copy Share Image
I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because… — Jenna Elfman Copy Share Image
So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been… — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
I believe in the institution loyalty and love, to stay with someone in good and hard times. I don't think a piece… — Enrique Iglesias Copy Share Image
It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
After approximately two decades and several billion dollars…Among the various types of cancer that account for 78% of the incidence..the upward trend… — Daniel S. Greenberg 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
The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal… — Robert L. Payton Copy Share Image
This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the… — Ken Blackwell Copy Share Image
Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the… — Tom L. Johnson Copy Share Image
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
What I think about derivatives is if every institution that owns or trades them is properly margined and marked to market, including… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
“Even though we long for community-for places of common vision, shared purpose, cooperative effort, and personal fulfillment within collective commitment-we most often… — William Ayers Copy Share Image
So the first things that you see when you look up something on Google could be dependent on the amount of advertising… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The International Criminal Court, like most international institutions, is a wonderful idea. A noble idea. All it needs to work is planetary… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
