The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history. — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning. — Tim Holden Copy Share Image
A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You can't have a market without government, because governments create the rules of competition and enforce fairness in the markets, and they… — Douglas Massey Copy Share Image
Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and… — Don Tapscott Copy Share Image
Frank Lowy is an institution in Australian sport but judging by this decision he might be visiting a different kind of institution.… — Clive Palmer Copy Share Image
A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress,… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment — Kingsley Martin Copy Share Image
Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire. — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity of thought.… — Halford Luccock Copy Share Image
One of my favorite fantasies is that next Sunday not one single woman, in any country of the world, will go to… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is an opportunist, mostly supported by the financial institutions. He had no positions on anything. He's very intelligent. If you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Inclusive economic institutions, such as those in South Korea or in the United States, are those that allow and encourage participation by… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
Americans, too many of them, take themselves too seriously. You're going to get rapped - by the viewers, by the sponsors and… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the things that neoliberalism does is, it relies on flexible workforces who are hired and fired at will and who… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Public institutions are supported by all taxpayers and are available to all. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution. — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image