There are so many reasons, but a big reason is that the literary world is simply too white. When there are more… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of responsibility. Literature is simply… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Wall Street bankers supposedly back the Yankees; Smith College girls approve of them. God, Brooks Brothers, and United States Steel are believed… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Americans, too many of them, take themselves too seriously. You're going to get rapped - by the viewers, by the sponsors and… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
“Inclusive economic institutions, such as those in South Korea or in the United States, are those that allow and encourage participation by… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
NVC can be effectively applied at all levels of communication and in diverse situations: intimate relationships, families, schools, organizations and institutions, therapy… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
We're not free because other people are nice, maybe other people aren't nice that day. We're free because we expect the institutions… — David Frum Copy Share Image
The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone, Security also lies in the value of our free institutions. A… — Murray Gurfein Copy Share Image
The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships,… — Gustav Landauer Copy Share Image
There are new ways of producing food, film, clothing, and research that steer clear of using animals. Some of those products are… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
Seven out of 10 Americans, they do not like the direction our country is going. Many of our fellow citizens feel alienated… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Education Proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws- If the patterns of institutions, customs, and laws are broken… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
You have to help good people see how they have let their institutions do their sinning for them. All around the world… — Peter Storey Copy Share Image
In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're… — Kay Hagan Copy Share Image
The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned over to the… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete… — Eric Liu 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
With each passing year, people of faith grow increasingly distressed by the hostility of public institutions toward religious expression. We have witnessed… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
... we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
He quietly groaned. Again and again, he’d witnessed this phenomenon with his friends. They got married. They were happy in that sated,… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
