Institutions Quotes · Page 17

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

— Berthold Auerbach

Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.

— H. Rap Brown

So many of our institutions have been overtaken by schools of thought, which are inherently a dead end.

— Bret Weinstein

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

— Vladimir Lenin

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers.

— Narendra Modi

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

— Johann Baptist Metz

The biggest problem Haiti has is the weakness of its public institutions.

— Jovenel Moise

My body was born into the - baptized in the Methodist church, and it will be buried in the Methodist Church. Meanwhile,…

— Huston Smith

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.

— William Bennett

We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.

— Susan Cain

I think that in the West, many citizens, especially younger citizens, take their freedoms and institutions for granted and focus on their…

— Kofi Annan

I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with…

— Bill Maher

Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.

— Andrew Jackson Davis

Every decision of strategic importance needs to go through the relevant institutions, certainly the sale of submarines to neighboring countries.

— Benny Gantz

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen…

— Muhammad Yunus

Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than…

— Samuel Smiles

After the risky mortgage-lending practices fostered by government intervention led to massive defaults and foreclosures that caused financial institutions to collapse or…

— Thomas Sowell

The choreographed standing and clapping of one side of the room - while the other side sits - is unbecoming of a…

— Mark Udall

Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast…

— J. G. Ballard

The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription,…

— Benjamin Disraeli

In our country [US] equality means your liberal and freedom means you're conservative. That tension is there and it can't be handled…

— Francis George

As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first…

— Joel Bakan

When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies?…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an…

— Chester Middlebrook Pierce

Perhaps more to the point for TBTF (Too Big To Fail bank), if a SIFI (Systemically Important Financial Institution) does fail I…

— Jeremy C. Stein

Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily…

— Horace Mann

Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary…

— C. Wright Mills

In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is…

— Thomas Sowell

But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and…

— Jonathan Kozol

When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of…

— Anonymous

Preventing conflict means going back to basics - strengthening institutions and building resilient societies.

— Antonio Guterres

Cultural arenas and institutions that were always liberal are being prodded or dragged further to the left.

— Ross Douthat

“The study of human institutions is always a search for the most tolerable imperfections.”

— Richard Allen Epstein

The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.

— Bernie Sanders

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

— Paul Johnson

I'm very optimistic, but I'm optimistic about individuals, not institutions.

— Heather Brooke

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

— Max Weber

My dad and uncles probably taught me more than any institutions.

— Tom Izzo