The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Financial institutions make us nervous when they're trying to do well. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong. — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
Non-bank financial institutions provide credit that is essential to U.S. businesses and consumers. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
We must limit the perception that some institutions are either too big or too interconnected to fail. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
In the midst of the war against ISIS, we have also waged war on corruption in civil and military institutions. — Haider al-Abadi Copy Share Image
The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
It's hard to give someone advice when you're an institution. I don't really put a lot of pressure on it - I'm… — Nick Swardson Copy Share Image
I think that in the West, many citizens, especially younger citizens, take their freedoms and institutions for granted and focus on their… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies. — William Bennett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every decision of strategic importance needs to go through the relevant institutions, certainly the sale of submarines to neighboring countries. — Benny Gantz Copy Share Image
Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error. — Andrew Jackson Davis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription,… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
... [L]ess than at any time does a simple reproduction of reality tell us anything about reality. A photograph of the Krupp… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton's such a classic Democratic political figure and believes so much in institutions and in gradualism in the old way of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Democratic institutions are necessary and very important, and if I remained at the head of government, it could be an obstacle to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Ours is a land rich in resources; stimulating in its glorious beauty; filled with millions of happy homes; blessed with comfort and… — Herbert Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
We really have to think about aging because women are living longer than men. More of the people who need care are… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes… — Hyman Minsky Copy Share Image
The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India. — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty. — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
After all is said and done and institutions fail, people still have some ability to care for each other. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. — Horatio Alger Copy Share Image
Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions. — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image