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
A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their… — Kevin Mattson Copy Share Image
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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
The institution of private property... is undergoing, at this time, a strain never put on it before. Not because the corporation, in… — Peter S. Grosscup Copy Share Image
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant… — Baldwin Spencer Copy Share Image
Christians in this country have found themselves under selective assault. God has, almost overnight, been removed from the educational, legal, and political… — Daniel Lapin Copy Share Image
And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions… — Joan Konner Copy Share Image
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted,… — Ronald Reagan 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
We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to… — Nicolle Wallace Copy Share Image
... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
