Institutions Quotes · Page 12

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

— Nina Fedoroff

There's no doubt that many of the mainstream white institutions tend to be cosmetic and symbolic when it comes to including African-Americans,…

— Cornel West

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

— Chuck Hagel

Transnational organized cybercriminal groups have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and ordinary citizens.

— Dmitri Alperovitch

I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two…

— Catharine Beecher

I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in…

— Alan Greenspan

Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's…

— Warren Buffett

It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a…

— Charles Horton Cooley

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the…

— Henry David Thoreau

We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the…

— Anonymous

One thing members of Congress need to realize is how much their reliance on staffers is hurting the institution and helping make…

— John Fund

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

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the…

— John Adams

Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of…

— Emma Goldman

That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since…

— Keith O'Brien

Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the…

— Bud Selig

Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into…

— Eric Ries

Dear friends, let us not forget the flesh of Christ which is in the flesh of refugees: their flesh is the flesh…

— Pope Francis

The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to…

— Richard Holloway

Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and…

— Elaine Pagels

I'm very committed to its educational institutions, including my alma mater Central Falls High School's drama program, because I know that's what…

— Viola Davis

The only way to change American society, and indeed I think this is true of other societies as well, is for people…

— Frances Fox Piven