Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation..., I fervently hope that the question is… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
The slightest sign of stability is used by local authoritarian leaders to bargain for the sympathies of Western countries that are, for… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
There are so many reasons, but a big reason is that the literary world is simply too white. When there are more… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in… — Kamisese Mara Copy Share Image
So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is worth noting that the people today who so vehemently wish to sweep religion from all public spaces and institutions are… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There's quite obviously the desire to open the rule sets that allow for inclusion or disclusion. I think that my hope would… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Imbued with the desire to secure for the German people the great religious, moral, and cultural values rooted in the two Christian… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute… — Czeslaw Milosz 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
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
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
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
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
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
The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships,… — Gustav Landauer Copy Share Image
What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone, Security also lies in the value of our free institutions. A… — Murray Gurfein Copy Share Image
The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
We're not free because other people are nice, maybe other people aren't nice that day. We're free because we expect the institutions… — David Frum Copy Share Image
On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
NVC can be effectively applied at all levels of communication and in diverse situations: intimate relationships, families, schools, organizations and institutions, therapy… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're… — Kay Hagan Copy Share Image
You have to help good people see how they have let their institutions do their sinning for them. All around the world… — Peter Storey Copy Share Image
In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
