Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real… — Gustav Landauer Copy Share Image
I would be interested in pulling whatever levers I can pull as secretary of Education to ensure that, especially if we're giving… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Two thousand years ago, God started a revolt against the religion He started. So don't ever put it past God to cause… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve the public… — Joan Konner Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused.… — Tom Udall Copy Share Image
[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to… — Muriel Beadle Copy Share Image
A considerable breakdown in my health has scared me from the anxieties, responsibilities and excitement of my profession; whether temporarily or permanently… — Thomas Addison Copy Share Image
It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity,… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction;… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Let us ban together to invent all the miracles and resurrection appearances which we never saw and le us carry the sham… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
There's kind of a hidden point which isn't being brought out, and that is that it is inconceivable that the U.S. would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst -… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I'm interested in institutions, particularly in the way institutions close ranks. They have hierarchies and their own ethics. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying… — John C. Danforth Copy Share Image
For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals’ increasing indifference to it, — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
In every instance when my administration sees a responsibility to help people, we will look first to faith-based institutions, to charities and… — George W. Bush 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
In America, we debate everything except capitalism. If there's an institution in your society that's above criticism, you're giving it a free… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a… — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My own view is that institutions are a glory, and for all their imperfections, something really to be proud of. It is… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
The genius of the tradition as it has developed in America is the unique combination of giving and voluntary service in behalf… — Robert L. Payton Copy Share Image
Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
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