The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas,… — Dionysius of Halicarnassus Copy Share Image
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular… — William James Copy Share Image
Yesterday, voters in the state of Maine voted no to gay marriage, but yes to medical marijuana. That's right, people in Maine… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I find it perfectly consistent for libertarians to operate on the municipal or county level, where they are close to the people… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
[Two of the most unpopular presidential candidates selected by the two parties in history] indicates that there is a lot of cynicism… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
The US two party system is very different, of course. Here the people decides about who should rule them, but it is… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
Some [people] think that there is a central organization responsible for all the institutions they wrongly think affiliated with me. They ignore… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
The union of a man and a woman is the most enduring human institution, honored and encouraged in all cultures and by… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In part, it's almost surely a failure of modern education, whether K through 12 or higher education, or really both. Barack Obama… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
Some people promote the idea that there can be two marriages, co-existing side by side, one heterosexual and one homosexual, without any… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Because marriage is a sacred institution and the foundation of society, it should not be redefined by activist judges. For the good… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Well, there’s 10 — there’s 10 different — there’s 10 different titles, you know, to the Civil Rights Act, and nine out… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The question arose, how would the communities manage this land on their own. That's why the Communal Land Rights Bill then borrows… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Competition can be viewed in two ways. It can be viewed in a negative light and be seen as destructive, but one… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I'm quite encouraged by the finding that voters do value checks and balances and accountability. I think it's very heartening. And it… — Sylvia Lim Copy Share Image
I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
The optimist in me hopes for a peripeteia and a closing scene of a sovereign, global-facing, dynamic U.K. liberated from the trammels… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
The United States genuinely sought to advance Russia's integration into the West and into international institutions. We genuinely sought to support Russia.… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The church may update its techniques and methods, but it is always in service of the institutional organism. This is one of… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
For all the venom and fear spewed at members of the 'religious right,' most of today's churches are left alone... the nonreligious… — Kay Coles James Copy Share Image
For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
As I write in 2012 we certainly do not believe that it is over yet, and the worst may be yet to… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
It is one thing for the institution to offer space for serious engagement, in thought and action, and to encourage free and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image