Institutions Quotes · Page 50

We can no longer be complacent with China's rise because so many institutions are making money in the Chinese market.

— Michael Waltz

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would…

— Daniel Webster

We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is…

— Peter Block

It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true…

— Vaclav Havel

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music,…

— Charles Gates Jr

I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and…

— Thomas Menino

Revolution does not mean torrents of blood, the taking of the Winter Palace, and so on. Revolution means a radical transformation of…

— Cornelius Castoriadis

If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying…

— Elizabeth Warren

The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly…

— Francis Fukuyama

The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of…

— Ibn Warraq

In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the…

— Ken Blackwell

Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the…

— Tom L. Johnson

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must…

— John Rawls

This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and…

— Stephen Breyer

The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal…

— Robert L. Payton

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague,…

— Carl Sagan

There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how…

— Robert M. Gates

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic…

— Lee R. Raymond

One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that…

— David Frum

Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of…

— Thomas Malthus

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

— Henry Giroux

Allegations that President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich partly in return for donations to his presidential library have raised questions about the value…

— Robert Dallek

If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.

— Warren Buffett

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the…

— Jeff Sessions

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil…

— Paul Krugman

In seeking an empire of liberty, Jefferson wished not only to expand the country's territorial holdings, but also to extend American institutions…

— Robert Dallek

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social…

— Amartya Sen

Mr. Putin's primary goal in the 2016 elections was to delegitimize our institutions and pit Americans against each other.

— Antony Blinken

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall…

— Edward Abbey

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

— August Strindberg

The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human…

— John Quincy Adams

The partial exception to our London-centric state institutions is the monarchy, which has always had peripatetic tendencies.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I'm always quite amazed that people in Europe become unnerved when two institutions or two people have different views.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through…

— Tyler Cowen

My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination…

— Mark Shields

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded…

— Anonymous

Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part,…

— Elbert Hubbard

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the…

— Noam Chomsky

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even…

— Paul Hawken