In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the… — David Korten Copy Share Image
When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If poverty and underdevelopment are primarily consequences of poor institutions, then by weakening those institutions or stunting their development, large aid flows… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
International institutions like the Security Council, the General Assembly, the G20, the BRICs, the IMF, etc., continue to be little more than… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
But the fact that the word "chattel" has survived as the inclusive legal term for all movable goods, points, not merely to… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Climate alarmists believe in their own omnipotency, in knowing better than millions of rationally behaving men and women what is right or… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I'm talking about just as an ongoing, everyday matter of daily life, one of the most destructive things if not the most… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system. — Lee R. Raymond 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
Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it? — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government. — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
As long term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. [...]… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
So they can create a class they don't like-here, homosexuals-or a class that they consider is suspect in the marriage category, and… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I think that by creating a world of plenty, by creating institutions and organizations that promote knowledge and promote understanding, I think… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image