We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The entire global 'Human Rights' framework, rooted in the 1951 U.N. Refugee Convention and made up of nebulous NGOs and institutions, is… — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Even a casual observer can see that not one of the systems, institutions, and devices that our species has put into place… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody's too big to fail. I think the - I think if what you've got is sort of a… — Marc Lasry Copy Share Image
Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from… — Robert Gordis Copy Share Image
The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone. Security also lies in the value of our free institutions. — Murray Gurfein Copy Share Image
At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Within this historic and optimistic future in mind, I have made no value judgment of the destiny bestowed on each nation. For… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, the state's first instinct is that of self-preservati on. All its enterprises are directed first towards… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
Legitimate rage on the part of working men and women is directed not only towards government but, I think quite correctly, towards… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
I'm an FDR Democrat, and I really believe that the most important thing is the institutions of political parties, and engaging in… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
What drives me is a sense of urgency. We live in frightening times. Progress towards gender equality and vital battles to end… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Belonging to the Catholic Church gives your support to an organization that conceals and protects child rapists. Again, not as a few… — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
Quality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smoky windows and oceans of words, and he sees that… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an… — Chester Middlebrook Pierce Copy Share Image
[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other… — B. H. Roberts Copy Share Image
Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth. — James Dobson Copy Share Image
The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Major global institutions need to harvest clean tech knowledge wherever it can be found and integrate it into their major export systems. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
For me, defeating Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts is driving a bigger blow to these institutions of power right in the belly of… — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
I've said many times around the world that like any government, like any country, like, any set of human institutions, we have… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently...recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur -… — Rick Mercer Copy Share Image
Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
The impact of racism has changed our look at ourselves because basically racism was meant to make us look unfaithfully at ourselves,… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I think that in the West, many citizens, especially younger citizens, take their freedoms and institutions for granted and focus on their… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies. — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image