“There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.” GovernmentAmericaDemocracyElementsVoteStructureRepublicRepresentativesHere And There Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.” ThinkingProblemGovernmentCitiesCrazyStupidBuildingCreatingBiggerStructureProblem Solving Author:Ai Weiwei
“The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there's still a one-party system and strong censorship.” YearsStillsGovernmentLastsCoursesStrongPartyStructureChinaCensorshipLast Year Author:Ai Weiwei
“The F.B.I. was very happy with the article they produced, which was entitled, "The Black Merchants of Hate," that came out in early 1963. What's significant about that piece is that that became the template for what evolved into the basic narrative structure of The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” HateBlackPiecesStructureSignificantNarrativeArticlesEntitledAutobiographyVery HappyMerchantsNarrative StructureMalcolm X Autobiography Author:Manning Marable
“I looked on the television the other night and saw them beating a Negro unmercifully in Mississippi. And this is the result of a brainwashing technique, a certain power structure in the American government has paid these Negro integrationist leaders to perpetuate among our people. But it's not a good thing, and it will never solve our problem.” PeopleProblemGovernmentNightCertainResultsLeaderSawsTelevisionPaidStructureGood ThingsSolveTechniqueMississippiBrainwashingAmerican Government Author:Malcolm X
“A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on.” MatterPoliticalJusticeEssentialsInstitutionsStructurePropertyConception Author:John Rawls
“The radical Islamic terrorists and their intent to destroy any other religious structure than their radical, wrong-headed view of Islam is one of the great, if not the greatest, challenge we've had in 70 years in America.” IfsYearsAmericaChallengesReligiousViewsStructureIslamTerroristRadicalIslamic Author:Rick Perry
“The reality which is pretending be reality right now, impersonating reality, is just a pretty flimsy structure. There is not a lot of substance to it. You can't find people who are actively involved of affected by it. What you see is a completely different world, what you see is the world of the homeless, and so forth.” PeopleWorldDifferentRealityInvolvedRight NowStructureSubstanceAffectedPretendingHomelessDifferent Worlds Author:Jerry Garcia
“What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense. The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.” NeedsFirstsHumansUsedBitsMoralPiecesStructureStartingDefinitionsUsed To BeMake SenseFragmentsSuitableBits And Pieces Author:Jerry Garcia
“As a person who's been in the professional world for some 25 years now, my experience is that the best core solution, the best solution for us as we change the structure, is to power through with great work product.” WorldYearsPersonsProductsSolutionsStructureCoreGreat Work Author:Megyn Kelly
“I worry about the entire structure of American democracy under Trump.” WorryDemocracyTrumpStructureAmerican Democracy Author:Jonathan Chait
“Here in Europe some of the challenges have to do with structures that are so complicated. You've got Brussels, and you've got parliament, you've got councils and then you've got national governments. So people sometimes don't feel as if they know who's making decisions, and the more that we can bring people in and engage them, the better. Some of it is also cultural and social, people's sense of identity.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsSometimesGovernmentSocialChallengesDecisionIdentityEuropeStructureComplicatedParliamentCouncilMaking DecisionsBrussels Author:Barack Obama
“I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.” ThinkingImportantGoneOrdinaryStructurePoetry Is Author:Robert Bly
“The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention and hierarchy were so entangled, that when the French killed the king during the Revolution, they lost much of their vertical attention too.” WholeLostChurchAttentionRevolutionKingsCatholicStructureConfusedEmpiresHierarchyCatholic ChurchAdaptedRoman EmpireVerticalRoman CatholicRoman Catholic Church Author:Robert Bly
“Domesticity is a fact of how social structure works. So if you say, "Well being domestic as a female is a negative trait," then that would be like saying, "Having a family - because that's an economic unit designed to further the economic structures in the world - if you have a family then you're subjugated."” IfsWorldWellsFactsWould BeSocialEconomicNegativeFemaleStructureWell BeingTraitsUnitsSocial StructureDomesticity Author:Jim Jarmusch
“Certainly professionally, yes [I was interested more in history]. And literary criticism, the structure of poetry. But it is primarily as a historian that I work, although text criticism and literary criticism are very much a part of my interests.” InterestCriticismStructureHistorianLiterary Criticism Author:Frank Moore Cross
“The Jesuits use this kind of training, or, let's say it this way: The Jesuit General imposes this kind of structure; he encourages the young men to specialize. Because getting ten of them together, you have the best of everything. But this does not mean that this system is good for the Jesuits all over. They're all available to the cause.” MenWayKindMeanDoeUseTogetherYoungCausesTenTrainingStructureAvailableYoung ManJesuit Author:Sergio Leone
“I think I have learned to really get out of the mathematical side of myself that looks at story and story structure and go with, "Okay, well, what would people do in real life?"” PeopleThinkingWellsLooksRealStoriesSidesOkayStructureReal LifeMathematicalI Have Learned Author:Rachel Bloom
“Generals often find a way of dealing with generals on the officer-to-officer level. In the hierarchy of the military and with the almost similar structure and similar language, they find a way of dealing with each other.” WayLanguageLevelsMilitaryStructureOfficersHierarchy Author:Kofi Annan
“I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison.” PeopleIfsMenFightingBattleStructureAdmireOppositionReverends Author:Malcolm X
“Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.” EndsLeaderSupportStructureReverends Author:Malcolm X
“A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest.” JobsAbilityStructureConstructionAssuranceEarnest Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“Fully "biodegradable" structures are nowadays the ideal and the standards to which most, if not all structures, struggle to measure up.” IfsStruggleStandardsIdealsStructureBiodegradable Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“People who spend their working hours in a lab or research library or a classroom might be intent primarily on keeping or advancing their elite positions, thereby lending tacit support to power structures. Or they might not be.” PeopleMightHoursSupportPositionResearchStructureLibraryClassroomElitesAdvancingLabsLendingTacitIt Support Author:Noam Chomsky
“Some [people] may be "servants of the power structure," but that has to be shown. I think it often can be shown, but the burden of proof is on the critic who puts forth that thesis in particular cases.” PeopleThinkingMayCasesParticularStructureCriticsBurdenProofServantThesisBurden Of ProofOften Can Author:Noam Chomsky
“The book Manufacturing Consent, which I co-authored with Edward Herman, begins with a description of the structure and institutional setting of the commercial media, and then draws some rather simple-minded conclusions about what we would expect the media product to be, given these (not particularly controversial) conditions.” BookGivenSimpleConditionsMediaProductsDrawsStructureSettingConclusionSettingsDescriptionConsentControversialManufacturing Author:Noam Chomsky
“Insofar as the universities are free and independent, they will also be "subversive," in the sense that dominant structures of power and their ideological support will be subjected to challenge and critique, a counterpart to attitudes that are fostered in the hard sciences wherever they are taken seriously.” HardChallengesAttitudeSupportTakenIndependentStructureUniversityDominantCritiqueIdeologicalSubversiveCounterparts Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.” ThinkingStillsStatesLawOrderForceUnitedUnited StatesStructureIndispensableRule Of LawPositive Change Author:John F. Kerry
“We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.” ThinkingWayHouseLostWhiteDecisionSecurityStructureDecision MakingWhite HouseZeroNational SecurityStrategicStrategic Thinking Author:Michael T. Flynn
“The system [in U.S.] is designed for a two-party system. And those two parties have an interest in keeping third parties out. There's too much of the structure that works in the two-party way. They will keep the third party out.” WayTwoInterestPartyToo MuchThirdsStructureThird PartiesTwo Party System Author:Michael Bloomberg
“You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure of their societies.” CountryHelpingActionChangedProgramIndiaStructureAffirmative ActionAffirmativeUntouchables Author:Barack Obama
“Let us look at international institutions and trusts. Trusts have a certain roles and unless you define what their roles are, what is it that they control? Are they controlling the day-to-day operations? If you do that, then what is Tata Sons for? What are the operative companies for? Effectively, you need to have clarity on the roles of different players inside a structure. That is the governance framework.” IfsNeedsLooksDifferentCertainCompanyRolesPlayerSonInstitutionsStructureInternationalClarityOperationsDay To DayGovernanceFrameworkTata Author:Cyrus Pallonji Mistry
“I was born a Zionist, because I didn't have a choice about that. It was the ether of my family life, but I certainly broke with it as I asked more questions about it. And that doesn't mean I want to see the destruction of a people, it means I want to see a state structure that might embody more substantially the basic principles of democracy.” PeopleWantMeanStatesMightChoicesBornPrinciplesDemocracyMy FamilyDestructionStructureBrokeFamily LifeZionistBasic Principles Author:Judith Butler
“I consider both the West Bank and Gaza to be colonised, even though Gaza is not occupied in the same way that the West Bank is. The Israeli government and military control all goods that pass in or out of that area, and they have restricted employment and building material that would allow Palestinians to rebuild homes and structures that were destroyed by bombardment.” WayHomeGovernmentMilitaryBuildingMaterialsAreasStructureWestDestroyedEmploymentGoodsPalestinianIsraeliGazaBuilding Materials Author:Judith Butler
“Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a monarchy with family members all around.” ModernTrumpMembersStructureAdministrationMonarchyFamily Members Author:David Brooks
“The Communal Land Rights Bill then said, since there would be those collectives set up in terms of the other legislation, there was no need for them to set up other structures to deal with the land issues.” NeedsSaidWould BeTermDealsIssuesRightsLandBillsStructureCollectivesLegislation Author:Thabo Mbeki
“As for the eastern part of the former Soviet Union, the picture is rather uniform. Authoritarian structures prevail to differing extents. But we can still determine certain regularities, and the role of Russia is not to be underestimated. It is clear that we would have the same situation in Tajikistan and, let's say, Uzbekistan without the direct influence of Russia.” StillsCertainSituationRolesClearInfluenceDirectStructureUnionsDetermineRussiaFormerSovietUniformsSoviet UnionEasternUnderestimatedRegularityUzbekistan Author:Garry Kasparov
“Besides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures.” ProblemConflictStructureTraditionalNurtureTerritorialCaucasus Author:Garry Kasparov
“It is quite clear, however, that there won't be any real changes with the current clan structure having seized power in the course of the Karabakh conflict.” RealCoursesClearConflictStructureCurrentsClansReal Change Author:Garry Kasparov
“The situation in Georgia is determined by the breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia. While we must acknowledge the reforms initiated by Mikheil Saakashvili that drastically lowered the level of corruption and authoritarian structures in the Georgian state, under the above-mentioned circumstances, the ruling elite must keep a firm grip on the country.” CountryStatesLevelsSituationCircumstancesStructureSouthCorruptionDeterminedReformFirmAcknowledgeRegionsElitesRulingGeorgiaGeorgiansBreakaway Author:Garry Kasparov
“We can actually learn from our mistakes and we can actually learn to conditionally structure our activities.” MistakeActivityStructureLearning From Our Mistakes Author:William G. Kline
“The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American foreign policy based on the post-World War II institutions that believed in democratic global world, which Russia and the Soviet Union was often seen as hostile to. And most Republicans and Democrats have always basically believed in this world order. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and maybe Marine Le Pen do not agree with this basic structure of the world.” WorldShouldWarOrderBeliefPolicyThis WorldTrumpRepublicanConcernAgreeInstitutionsStructureUnionsDemocraticDemocratRussiaPostsWar Of The WorldsPensSovietWorld War IiForeign PolicyWorld War ISoviet UnionHostileMarinePutinWorld OrderBipartisanAmerican Foreign Policy Author:David Brooks
“The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.” HumansWholeGovernmentRightsStructureHuman RightsAccountability Author:Mary Robinson
“It remains the task of governments to implement the fundamental human rights standards which should influence all aspects of globalisation, including even trade talks, and to be answerable for this in a democratic way. The structure is international, but the accountability is national and I would like to see that accountability being more penetrating at regional and local level, especially in federal systems.” WayShouldHumansGovernmentLevelsRightsInfluenceStandardsAspectTasksFundamentalsRemainsTradeStructureDemocraticIncludingInternationalHuman RightsLocalsAccountabilityGlobalisation Author:Mary Robinson
“The structures of the WTO need to be reformed to increase participation. There must be a greater sense of shared ownership of the substance of the trade negotiation agenda. Decisions about issues to be negotiated, and in which sequence they should be taken, should rest with all WTO members, not only the most powerful.” NeedsShouldDecisionPowerfulIssuesTakenGreaterMembersIncreaseTradeStructureSubstanceAgendasMost PowerfulOwnershipParticipationNegotiationSequence Author:Mary Robinson
“Capital market liberalization includes freeing up deposit and lending rates, opening up the market to foreign banks, and removing restrictions on capital account transactions and bank lending. The focus is on deregulation, not on finding the right regulatory structure.” FocusFindingsAccountsStructureRateOpeningRestrictionTransactionsLendingOpening UpDepositsDeregulation Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“I enjoy places that have mystery and atmosphere, perhaps a patina of age, a suggestion rather than a description, a question or two. I look for memories, traces, evidence of the human interaction with the landscape. Sometimes I photograph pure nature, sometimes urban structures.” HumansLooksTwoSometimesAgeEnjoyMemoriesMysteryPureEvidenceStructurePhotographLandscapeAtmosphereDescriptionInteractionUrbanSuggestions Author:Michael Kenna
“[ Massachusetts constitution] was [John Adams] attempt to justify that structure by the traditional notion of social estates - that the executive represented the monarchical estate, the senate the aristocratic estate, and the house of representatives the estate of the people.” PeopleHouseSocialConstitutionStructureNotionTraditionalJustifyExecutivesSenateRepresentativesEstatesMassachusettsHouse Of RepresentativesAristocratic Author:Gordon S. Wood
“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” WarSoulHumanityPeaceProcessOpinionBuildingHarmonyStructurePeacefulBarriersWorkoutBeing At PeacePeace And HarmonyPeaceful WorldAchieving PeacePeace Of HeartPeace HarmonyPeace Of SoulCultural BarriersSitting Quietly Author:John F. Kennedy
“Democracy takes work. That's the thing we're really finding out, that, you know, in many ways, you know, the past two decades we've taken for granted all of the extraordinary achievements of the post-war generation. You know, building this global alliance structure that has kept the peace across the North Atlantic since World War II. Building all of these institutions, building all this remarkable technology. And people have privatized. You know, you can now, you don't have to go outdoors much, the whole world comes to you.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayTwoWarWholePastTechnologyDemocracyTakenGenerationsBuildingAchievementFindingsInstitutionsStructureExtraordinaryDecadesWhole WorldGrantedPostsWar Of The WorldsRemarkableWorld War IiWorld War IAlliancesTaken For GrantedPost WarExtraordinary Achievement Author:David Frum