Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions…there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society. — Manuel Castells Copy Share Image
You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
So many people and institutions are against homosexuals that, as a homosexual, you can't waste your time by trying to convince them… — Abdellah Taia Copy Share Image
The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Bankers themselves govern the Fed to some extent, and then there's the classic revolving door where Fed officials come from and then… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
This is where I think policies do need to be somewhat race-specific, is making sure that institutions are not discriminatory. So you've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
We really have to think about aging because women are living longer than men. More of the people who need care are… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes… — Hyman Minsky Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I know all the problems of the schools. They're rigid, they're bureaucratic, they've got a lot of problems. But it's such an… — Edward Zigler Copy Share Image
Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point. — Melissa Farley Copy Share Image
“What we need to make a more decent society is not a few Splendid Samaritans but millions of Minimally Decent Samaritans.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have… — Christopher Wills Copy Share Image
Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women. — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
I mean by Society, the totality of concepts of all purely natural relations and institutions between man and man. — Franz Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those… — Henry Waxman Copy Share Image
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press,… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an… — Robert Pozen Copy Share Image
If poverty and underdevelopment are primarily consequences of poor institutions, then by weakening those institutions or stunting their development, large aid flows… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
America cannot stand idly by while our biggest foreign adversary takes advantage of us and the institutions that have made America strong. — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some… — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image