Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards. — Darrell Hammond Copy Share Image
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“condemn traditional institutions but, we fervently hope, to be among” — Cathy N. Davidson Copy Share Image
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it… — Javier Perez de Cuellar Copy Share Image
In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I… — Mario Monti 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
Too often, the very institutions that are supposed to protect and serve our community have instead failed people of color, specifically our… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . .… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
Our soldiers in another area were attacked chemically. Our soldiers - they went to the hospital as casualties because of chemical weapons,… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no organizations and institutions that are worthwhile in terms of fighting for and dying for unless there is some individual… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, academies - that are rooted in the… — David Grann Copy Share Image
The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need… — Harry Golden 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
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy 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
But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We have to find a way of understanding how one category of sex can be "assigned" from both and another sense of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
So many of our institutions have been overtaken by schools of thought, which are inherently a dead end. — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions. — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
