With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the… — Leopoldo Lopez Copy Share Image
[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
I think that rather than saying that Occupy Wall Street has died, we can say that they're in the process of understanding… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It's not that you have jobs on the Internet, but the Internet makes it possible for more people to build their own… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I want to always move forward with everything I am doing. So, I do the radio show, speak at universities and other… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
The French under the old monarchy held it for a maxim that the king could do no wrong . The Americans entertain… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin;… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race. — Hugh Price Hughes Copy Share Image
It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting. — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now. — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only… — Ken Calvert Copy Share Image
No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something different to… — Lou Gerstner Copy Share Image
I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part,… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
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