To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty. — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. — Horatio Alger Copy Share Image
After all is said and done and institutions fail, people still have some ability to care for each other. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks… — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
The problem with monasteries, ashrams, convents is these institutions become extremely political. In other words, they're really small societies, and much of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of… — Calvin Coolidge 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
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
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
This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
[T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
What the Republican National Committee did to Ron Paul was the height of rudeness and stupidity for this reason: Why would you… — Michael Steele 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
Like the vast majority of Americans, I've opposed same-sex marriage, but I've also opposed unjust discrimination against anyone, for racial or religious… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State.… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So persuasive is the power of the institutions we have created that they shape not only our preferences but actually our sense… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it. — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image
In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to it's… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image