Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press. — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it. — Shere Hite Copy Share Image
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
There are a large number of institutions in this country which we should not politicise. — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence. — Edwin H Friedman Copy Share Image
All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the… — Babatunde Fashola Copy Share Image
Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When I consider a problem, it is now instinctive for me to think about the institutions involved, the authorizing environment, possible coalitions,… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
In almost every place where we find totems we also find a law against persons of the same totem having sexual relations… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The West has institutions that can punish the misconduct of individuals. What drove Rwanda and Africa into decline was the fact that… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values… — David Korten Copy Share Image
I mean the whole economy just comes to a grinding halt. Competence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen.… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions--even when that… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily… — Horace Mann 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
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
We are victims of - the DNC and other institutions are victims of a cybercrime led by thugs. — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself. — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it? — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
