If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and… — Thomas Menino Copy Share Image
Revolution does not mean torrents of blood, the taking of the Winter Palace, and so on. Revolution means a radical transformation of… — Cornelius Castoriadis Copy Share Image
It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy. — Fernando Henrique Cardoso Copy Share Image
Putting a rheumatologist at the head of a committee that arguably was going to have more influence over brain research than any… — Steve Fainaru Copy Share Image
If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment… — Ivor Novello Copy Share Image
In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to… — Richard Halverson Copy Share Image
The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive. We all may talk… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions:… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
Democracy takes work. That's the thing we're really finding out, that, you know, in many ways, you know, the past two decades… — David Frum Copy Share Image
If the six-nation forums dealing with Iran and North Korea suffer comparable failures, the consequence will be a world of unchecked proliferation,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
For openers, marriage is neither a matter of politics, nor is it a matter of social policy. Marriage is defined by the… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle...… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. Our government does not copy our neighbors', but… — Pericles Copy Share Image
Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image
Because of its divine institution for the propagation of man, the seed is not to be vainly ejaculated, nor is it to… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so. — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better. — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation. — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology,… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
“If economics were only about profit maximization, it would be just another name for business administration. It is a social discipline, and… — Dani Rodrik Copy Share Image
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
To pastors and leaders who serve faithfully, who work to teach and shepherd those who are in your church or religious institution:… — Steve Daines Copy Share Image
One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that… — David Soul Copy Share Image
As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
I think institutions that are bureaucratic often try to squeeze from the top down, and they don't have good results on the… — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image