Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world? — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
While offering economic continuity, Common Market 2.0 would mean we leave the political institutions of the E.U. — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Inclusive economic and political institutions do not emerge by themselves. They are often the outcome of significant conflict between elites resisting economic… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other… — B. H. Roberts Copy Share Image
You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they… — Roque Dalton Copy Share Image
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“NATIONS FAIL TODAY because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate. Extractive… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Congo, vividly illustrates how political institutions determine economic institutions and, through these, the economic incentives and the scope for economic growth.” — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“While Bigge was trying to turn back the clock, ex-convicts and their sons and daughters were demanding greater rights. Most important, they… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to… — Muriel Beadle Copy Share Image
The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time… — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
“Economic institutions shape economic incentives: the incentives to become educated, to save and invest, to innovate and adopt new technologies, and so… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“A democratic state begins from the assumption that most of those who gravitate toward power are mediocre and probably immoral. It assumes… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“We saw in the previous chapter how the process of political centralization under the Tudor monarchy in England increased demands for voice… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Inclusive economic and political institutions do not emerge by themselves. They are often the outcome of significant conflict between elites resisting economic… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
No light privilege is it to have a hand in building up the moral life of these new communities; no common honour… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it… — Javier Perez de Cuellar Copy Share Image
If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“We will refer to political institutions that are sufficiently centralized and pluralistic as inclusive political institutions. When either of these conditions fails,… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Christians in this country have found themselves under selective assault. God has, almost overnight, been removed from the educational, legal, and political… — Daniel Lapin Copy Share Image
Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
So we're all living spirit. It's not about isms and schims or religions. Religions are almost like political institutions, but the heart… — Surya Das 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
The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal… — Robert L. Payton Copy Share Image
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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