The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history. — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning. — Tim Holden Copy Share Image
The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies tend to perpetuate themselves, whether they are multinational corporations or large government institutions such as Medicare, often at the expense of… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor… — Muhammad Yunus 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
Millennials are not deeply familiar with school choice, and have some reservations, especially about the types of institutions that a student might… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
The National Socialist Movement, which aims at establishing the National Socialist People's State, must always bear steadfastly in mind the principle that… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I would lay down my life to defend any one of the States from aggression, which endangered peace or threatened its institutions.… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In the midst of wanton aggression, we still call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the… — David Ben-Gurion 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
The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than… — John Locke Copy Share Image
There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The Tao can't be perceived. Smaller than an electron, it contains uncountable galaxies. If powerful men and women could remain centered in… — Laozi Copy Share Image
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
Brandon McCsw says the Western civilization was created in medieval Europe for the forms of thought and action in Modern Europe and… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Surely there is a fitness in the institution of the Lord's Supper as a standing memorial by which the church at large… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
For 40 years, my argument has been that democratizing ownership of wealth has been the key to egalitarian society and the goals… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons. — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
The more we demand that institutions allow us to be who we are, the more they're going to have to. — Stephen Herbits Copy Share Image
I'm fairly skeptical of movements, organizations, and institutions in general. — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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