What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
These are economic issues that should get resolved. There are creative solutions to every problem. Hopefully between the lending institutions and the… — Bob DuPuy Copy Share Image
The only ground of hope for the continuance of our free institutions is in the proper moral and religious training of the… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
The Democrats, because they believe in socialism, redistribution, forced the banks and financial institutions to make the risky loans. — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
Respect for human rights requires transparent and accountable institutions and governance as well as the effective participation of all individuals and civil… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
An institution that...would permit Iraq, a terrorist state that refuses to disarm, to become soon the chair of the United Nations Commission… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Institutions are the humanly devised constraints that structure human interaction. They are made up of formal constraints (rules, laws, constitutions), informal constraints… — Thomas Dalton Copy Share Image
All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
So: if the chronic inflation undergone by Americans, and in almost every other country, is caused by the continuing creation of new… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
We only have one penal code in the United States, and it applies in every single state, every city, no matter who… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
I went off to college, a good, middle-class, very proper college, a Brethren institution, where two years of Bible study are required… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I'm very committed to its educational institutions, including my alma mater Central Falls High School's drama program, because I know that's what… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of institutions in the economic world which depart from the simple price/market model which I worked on in… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of… — Richard Mitchell 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
To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
We do need great change in Burma. We are trying to build a new society, a society where basic human rights are… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Business is the most powerful institution on earth today. It is more powerful than politics. Business serves us very well in some… — Michael Rennie Copy Share Image
The coup de grace which ends the patient's life altogether is quite equivalent to the drastic modification in the institution of marriage… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I think it's going to take three or four generations of gay people being able to get married before it starts feeling… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they… — Roque Dalton Copy Share Image
I'm not going to name anybody, but I think there are about five to 10 global institutions that will emerge as our… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
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