Most institutions of higher learning in the West were founded by and for religious denominations. The supposed alienation of education and faith… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
While other individuals or institutions obtain their income by production of goods and services and by the peaceful and voluntary sale of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas engender… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The whole of life has become an institution, a madhouse in which duties are to be fulfilled not love; in which you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have therefore come to the opinion that the most reasonable recourse for the humanization of society and its institutions is to… — Manitonquat Copy Share Image
Identity means "how do I get known? How do I expressmyself?" and that's generally what I'm helping somebody do. It may be… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The choreographed standing and clapping of one side of the room - while the other side sits - is unbecoming of a… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
After the risky mortgage-lending practices fostered by government intervention led to massive defaults and foreclosures that caused financial institutions to collapse or… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In our country [US] equality means your liberal and freedom means you're conservative. That tension is there and it can't be handled… — Francis George Copy Share Image
The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription,… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The founders of the great world religions, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu, Mohammed, all seem to have striven for a worldwide brotherhood of… — Geoffrey Gorer Copy Share Image
He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public deliberation,… — Kevin Mattson Copy Share Image
Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps,… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans or the English which have a long history of continuous creation, is that… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I just think we all distrust people and institutions much more than we once did. And we tend to think elites run… — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all… — Don Tapscott Copy Share Image
One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must… — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share Image
You become an anti-Semite. And as powerful as the Israeli lobby is, the Saudi lobby is just as powerful. In fact, the… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
When you are in a jackal environment, never give them the power to submit or rebel. We want to teach this to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Cumulatively, American society is sliding toward a new form of 'authoritarian democracy'. Elections continue, free speech is generally protected, institutions operate in… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You have to understand that the I.D.W. emerged as a response to a world where perfectly reasonable intellectuals were being regularly mislabeled… — Eric Weinstein Copy Share Image
Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
I've met some real talents that were...real talents and I've met some real talents that were incredible people.People like Al Williamson, Gray… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic… — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material… — Avro Manhattan Copy Share Image
Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image