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
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
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
It's hard to give someone advice when you're an institution. I don't really put a lot of pressure on it - I'm… — Nick Swardson Copy Share Image
“When a man begins to feel that he is the only one whou can lead in this republic, he is guilty of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Institutions are becoming naked, and if you're going to be naked … fitness is no longer optional. If you're going to be… — Don Tapscott Copy Share Image
I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
“Inclusive economic institutions, such as those in South Korea or in the United States, are those that allow and encourage participation by… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Americans, too many of them, take themselves too seriously. You're going to get rapped - by the viewers, by the sponsors and… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of responsibility. Literature is simply… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Wall Street bankers supposedly back the Yankees; Smith College girls approve of them. God, Brooks Brothers, and United States Steel are believed… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
The downfall of democratic institutions in Russia doesn't add to the self-confidence of either [Vladimir] Putin or his friends, as the loss… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
If somehow every volunteer vanished tomorrow, so much of this country would come to a standstill: schools, hospitals and libraries. You can't… — Al Roker Copy Share Image
Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
My body was born into the - baptized in the Methodist church, and it will be buried in the Methodist Church. Meanwhile,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Collectivists are of the view that pluralism in provision should extend to charitable institutions but not private companies. — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their… — Christopher Michael Cillizza 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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