[People] have seen the credit market seize up. They're worried about money market funds, although the latest proposition from government should take… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
I feel that gay people not being able to get married for generations, forever, meant that we came up with alternative ways… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Sometimes a child will get lucky and be placed with foster parents who are loving and supportive and who consider that child… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
From arts, to literature, to science, to the founding of Christian institutions, all of that has its roots in a biblical worldview,… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
All organizations are hierarchical. At each level people serve under those above them. An organization is therefore a structured institution. If it… — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The presumption that the law can tell us what natural institution is supposed to be is a formula for totalitarianism. There's not… — Francis George Copy Share Image
The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our most basic institution of family desperately needs help and support from the extended family and the public institutions that surround us.… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
The gay movement is an evil institution that's goal is to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities… — David Korten Copy Share Image
In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions are run… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
In our country [US] equality means your liberal and freedom means you're conservative. That tension is there and it can't be handled… — Francis George Copy Share Image
The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription,… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The choreographed standing and clapping of one side of the room - while the other side sits - is unbecoming of a… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
After the risky mortgage-lending practices fostered by government intervention led to massive defaults and foreclosures that caused financial institutions to collapse or… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans or the English which have a long history of continuous creation, is that… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I just think we all distrust people and institutions much more than we once did. And we tend to think elites run… — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public deliberation,… — Kevin Mattson Copy Share Image
Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps,… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The founders of the great world religions, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu, Mohammed, all seem to have striven for a worldwide brotherhood of… — Geoffrey Gorer Copy Share Image
Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
You have to understand that the I.D.W. emerged as a response to a world where perfectly reasonable intellectuals were being regularly mislabeled… — Eric Weinstein Copy Share Image