In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying… — John C. Danforth Copy Share Image
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise… — James Cook Copy Share Image
Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Once we link up and network, there will be new institutions, new beginnings, and a change in the economy because capitalism is… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
...four in five of us are, to some extent, members of faith communities. If just a fraction of this huge body of… — Ian Christie Copy Share Image
I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I've met some real talents that were...real talents and I've met some real talents that were incredible people.People like Al Williamson, Gray… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
I think unity is a mistake.... If I were the Establishment and had the big loaded guns of the various oppressive institutions....I… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was… — Jay Hernandez Copy Share Image
So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed,… — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
The institutions are working better now, the banks are much more functional. At this time, 1997, there were no mobile phones! It's… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Historically black colleges and universities are incredibly important institutions woven into the fabric of America. They have played such an important role… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But, gee," the other nurse says, "what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for,… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image