The mistake that was made in the '70s is we stopped policing the streets, we stopped cleaning the streets, we stopped cleaning… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Parents still have primary responsibility for raising children, but they must have the power to do so in ways consistent with their… — Kenneth Keniston 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
The question arose, how would the communities manage this land on their own. That's why the Communal Land Rights Bill then borrows… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced… — Franz Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
[I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
The Australian Army is a highly respected National institution because of its people. It's all about the people. If we communicate, and… — Ken Gillespie Copy Share Image
Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant,… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government. — Neil Steinberg Copy Share Image
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I think I should date a normal girl. I am tired of dating heroines. While I believe in marriage as an institution,… — Shahid Kapoor Copy Share Image
Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Copy Share Image
People who don't see themselves reflected in an institution tend not to associate themselves with those institutions. — Annamie Paul Copy Share Image
The situation in the [North Caucasus ] region can easily get out of control if the capital inflow is interrupted. It is… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Some [people] think that there is a central organization responsible for all the institutions they wrongly think affiliated with me. They ignore… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity of thought.… — Halford Luccock Copy Share Image
In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image