I'll tell you the truth - I went to a women's college, Barnard, the most selective college for women in America today.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
In fairness, Latin America's elected civilian leaders have made progress in some areas. They have brought their countries back to international respectability,… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The way in which a society organizes the life of its members ... is one "project" of realization among others. But once… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Freedom, by its nature, must be chosen, and defended by citizens, and sustained by the rule of law and the protection of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them… — Douglas Massey Copy Share Image
Through its imperialist system Britain brought about untold suffering of millions of people. And this is an historical fact. To be able… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Over time I began to realize that the level of cinema criticism in the last part of XX century in the United… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Behind the abstraction known as 'the markets' lurks a set of institutions designed to maximize the wealth and power of the most… — Doug Henwood Copy Share Image
I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book.… — John Cage Copy Share Image
When a republic's most venerable institutions no longer operate as they were intended, it becomes possible for small cabals to usurp power,… — T. D. Allman Copy Share Image
The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Climate alarmists believe in their own omnipotency, in knowing better than millions of rationally behaving men and women what is right or… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
The basic problem with the new species of global institutions is that they have not yet become aware of themselves as living.… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Except for those few Christians who hold that Christians should have nothing to do with government and hence cannot attempt to influence… — Harold O. J. Brown Copy Share Image
We have to be able track the ways in which fear, for instance, is monopolized by state and media institutions, ways in… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman.… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it… — Jonathan Falwell Copy Share Image
Even if leftists were able to get control of every institution they want to destroy, what they want is not possible. The… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The four most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different.' Thanks to this masterpiece by Carmen Reinhart at the University… — Martin Wolf Copy Share Image
We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Many more children observe attitudes, values and ways different from or in conflict with those of their families, social networks,and institutions. Yet… — James P. Comer Copy Share Image
A few months ago people were talking about seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Now the only hope is… — Jeffrey Garten Copy Share Image
The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution… — George Washington Copy Share Image
He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church… — Eddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
I think communities of faith are extremely important in this question. I think that all faith communities share a common and unusual… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image