India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and… — William Randolph Hearst Copy Share Image
Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God. — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
The communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They've tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn't they try to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
You know, there's a growing level of disenchantment with governing institutions in Brazil. And in a sense, it's a healthy development because… — Simon Romero Copy Share Image
College is a safe space where it can be hard to truly fail. The institution is rooting for you because your failure… — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days,… — Henry Kravis Copy Share Image
Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Balance and control come from healthy anger. This is just as aggressive as the unhealthy kind. But it is based on a… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
... leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
It concerns me when I see a small child watching the hero shoot the villain on television. It is teaching the small… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
I have high respect for the Chief Justice and the institution he represents. But, I equally demand respect to the institution I… — Juan Ponce Enrile Copy Share Image
The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Since leaving DB, I have participated in many conferences and swish events that other financial institutions have held for their women's groups. — Stephanie Ruhle Copy Share Image
Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling… — Don Tapscott Copy Share Image
The ultimate success of this government and the stability of its institutions, its progress in all that can make a nation honored,… — Jon Lord Copy Share Image
Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage… — Mike Rounds Copy Share Image
Marriage exists as an institution of exploitation, it is not togetherness. That is why no happiness comes out of it as a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family,… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to… — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
I usually save these answers [on the institution of marriage] for my Barbara Walters Special, but she didn't call so I've never… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image