We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action. — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . .… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the… — Leopoldo Lopez Copy Share Image
Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations. — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share Image
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies. — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies. — John Sentamu Copy Share Image
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality. — John Milton Copy Share Image
But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Those days are long gone. But our corporations haven't caught up with it. Our law firms, our higher education system, and our… — Vicki Donlan Copy Share Image
We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an… — Robert Pozen Copy Share Image
In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image