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“By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.”

Source: Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics

“Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.”

Certain Names Situation Power Strength Particular Institutions Structure Complexes Attributes

Book:The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

“Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.”

Mean Doe Justice Institutions Working It

Author:Michel Foucault

“It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.”

People Running Faces Taxes Percent Institutions Debt Deficit Straight Face

Author:Richard Neal

“There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.”

Doubt Influence Importance Institutions No Doubt Prize Worthwhile

Author:Keith O'Brien

“You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.”

Has Beens Home Political Leader Failing Dangerous Politician Institutions Decades Voters Decline Steep Nodding Political Institutions Elected Leaders

Author:Ron Fournier

“Join the crazed institution of the stars.”

Stars Institutions Insanity

Author:Jethro Tull

“That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration”

“Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.”

Want Children Running Law Decision Example Institutions Protection Public Service

Author:Trevor Phillips

“I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.”

Thinking Writing Would Be Force Institutions Financial Things To Do Sensible Mortgage Underwater Financial Institutions

Author:Christina Romer

“Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.”

People Thinking Giving Trying Helping Differences Growing Up Growing Organization Institutions Educational Making A Difference Scholarship Educational Institutions

Author:David Rubenstein

“But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.”

Needs Faces Energy Strong Nations Challenges Security India Institutions Climate Climate Change China Australia Stability Crucial Food Security Rise Of China

Author:Kevin Rudd

“The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.”

Responsibility Risk Safety Institutions Financial Reserves Federal Reserve Financial Markets Financial Institutions Soundness

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I remember in 2000, when President Clinton came to Cartagena just before Plan Colombia started, the country was on the verge of becoming a failed state. Today, we are one of the most solid democracies, where institutions are working, where the scandals such as false positives have come to light because of those functioning institutions.”

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Author:Juan Manuel Santos

“But, you know, I'm presiding over an institution that was designed not to work.”

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Author:John Boehner

“The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.”

Wells Book Would Be Able Teacher Subjects Information Institutions Library Expensive Publication Adapted Containing Public Library

Book:Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community

Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community

“Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.”

People Government Function Institutions Superiors Private Sector

Book:The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas

Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas

“Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.”

World Lost Leader Economy Institutions Divided Unstable Global Economy World Economy Lost Trust

Author:Don Tapscott

“Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.”

Way Looks Leader Happenings Institutions Extraordinary Initiative Sparkling

Author:Don Tapscott

“The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.”

People World Play Issues Institutions Complexes Corporations Blanket Assertion Business World

Author:Don Tapscott

“We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.”

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Author:Don Tapscott

“The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.”

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Author:Tom Udall

“Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.”

Firsts Wells Kind Two Important Culture Institutions Important Things Islam Differentiate

Author:Abdurrahman Wahid

“Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions- all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.”

“Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead.”

Movement Crisis Institutions Financial Assets Toxic Transformed Zombie Conservatism Financial Crisis Financial Institutions

Author:Thomas Frank

“...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have no self-respect and no respect for anybody or any institution....And I don't want to sound preachy or Victorian, but I'm tired of amorality in fiction and in real life. Immorality is a fascinating human dilemma that creates suspense for the readers and tension for the characters, but where is the tension in an amoral situation? When people have no personal code, nothing is threatening and nothing is meaningful.”

“It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.”

Source: Beyond Doubt: Faith-Building Devotions on Questions Christians Ask

“The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. And you can't impeach Google if it breaks its 'Don't be evil' campaign pledge.”

“Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.”

Ought Equal Institutions Sacred Unions Protection Equal Protection

Author:James McGreevey

“The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.”

War Ends Fighting Situation Weapons Institutions Currents Factors Liberation Phenomenon Imperialism Proletariat Employing Current Situation Vanguard

Author:Clara Zetkin

“There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.”

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Author:Mark Zandi

“We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to prevent the concentration of economic power, or take account of how such concentration damages the conditions under which full human flourishing becomes possible (it is never guaranteed).”

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Book:Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

Source: Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

“A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]”

Should Should Have Institutions University Theology Virginia Professorship

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.”

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Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.”

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Author:George Soros

“You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.”

People Names Mouths Institutions Academic Hallways

Author:David Horowitz

“If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.”

Ifs Courses Thirds Institutions Slavery Property Restoring

Book:The Servile State

Source: The Servile State

“Schools are compulsory for about ten years of a person's life. They are, perhaps, the only compulsory institutions for all citizens, although those with full membership in schools are not yet treated as full citizens of our society.”

Years Persons School Citizens Ten Institutions Treated Our Society Membership Compulsory

Author:Marie Brennan

“In government institutions and in teaching, you need to inspire confidence. To achieve credibility, you have to very clearly explain what you are doing and why. The same principles apply to businesses.”

Needs Government Principles Teaching Achieve Inspire Institutions Credibility

Author:Janet Yellen

“If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.”

Ifs Humans Doe Produce Ignorance Institutions Vulnerable Squares

Author:Charlie Pierce

“I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.”

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Author:Mario Monti

“I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.”

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Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.”

People Ifs Whole Hands Liberty Duty Institutions Preservation

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.”

May Children Country Causes Enjoy United Generations Thousand Benefits Our Children Institutions Glorious Rejoice

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.”

Way Humans Struggle Office Tests Institutions Way To Live

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln

“The Christian church does not ask the U. S. Supreme Court, or any other human court, what marriage is. Marriage is a pre-political institution defined by our Creator - for His glory and for human flourishing.”

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Author:Albert Mohler

“Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.”

Citizens Institutions Rate Committed Second Rate

Book:Counterclockwise

Source: Counterclockwise

“I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with.”

Able Lost Married Institutions Partners Smarter Considering Getting Married Lost Faith Complete Me

Author:Teri Polo

“Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original picture of them in 'The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook,' published in 1982, was of an upper-middle-class world, conservative and fairly homogeneous, united by old attitudes and institutions.”

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Author:Peter York

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