Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbert Read

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

Henry James Sumner Maine

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

Amar Bose

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

David Cameron

Over the longer term, the institutions and powers of the EU will continue to expand and certain policymaking powers, heretofore vested in the member states, will be delegated or transferred to, or pooled and shared with EU institutions. As a result, the sovereignty of the member states will increasingly be eroded.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

Ivan Krastev

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

Eric Ries

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

There exists no more democratic institution than the market

Gene Simmons

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

Paddy Ashdown

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is not free from human beings but for them.

Jason Silva

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

Kenneth R. Miller

We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue to reject the theory of evolution is just one symptom of that malaise.

Vincent Bugliosi

For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

Kate Bernheimer

I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

Noam Chomsky

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Orlando Bloom

Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.

Peter Singer

You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals.

Paul Bloom

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.