Institutions Quotes · Page 16

U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here.

— Noam Chomsky

The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.

— Carl Sandburg

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

— Ivan Krastev

Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

— Derek Bok

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution

— Anonymous

People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions.

— John Henrik Clarke

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

— George Bernard Shaw

Institutions too often focus their energy preserving the problem to which they are a solution than to innovate their way to success.

— Josh Linkner

At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution.

— Bill Maher

Sometimes to think about why some institutions are stable, it's interesting to go one generation back and look at the author of…

— Colin Firth

When an institution goes through an inflection point, it has to institutionalise itself. That institutionalisation requires governance to be put in place,…

— Cyrus Pallonji Mistry

I would, however, question the implication that there is some novelty in this beyond modalities [of Mikhail Bakunin], which naturally change as…

— Noam Chomsky

It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social…

— Marcus Garvey

In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens…

— Bobby Jindal

A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security…

— Anonymous

Education Proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws- If the patterns of institutions, customs, and laws are broken…

— John Dewey

Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into…

— Inga Muscio

Seven out of 10 Americans, they do not like the direction our country is going. Many of our fellow citizens feel alienated…

— Paul Ryan

There are new ways of producing food, film, clothing, and research that steer clear of using animals. Some of those products are…

— Wayne Pacelle

North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're…

— Kay Hagan

In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take a…

— James Madison

Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope…

— Charles Babbage

The financial crisis has underscored how insufficient attention to fundamental corporate governance concepts can have devastating effects on an institution and its…

— Daniele Nouy

“Once the state starts providing, it feels free to hand out the rules, too!" Larch blurted hastily. ..."In a better world..." she…

— John Irving

Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most…

— Rajneesh

We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that…

— Lyman Abbott

Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his…

— George Berkeley

[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

The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in…

— Ivan Pavlov

Huge institutions producing costly services dominate the horizons of our inventiveness.

— Ivan Illich

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.

— James McHenry

When I became the CM in 2002, I had to quit the boards of some institutions, where I was a member.

— Amarinder Singh

The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".

— U Thant

Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.

— David Remnick

... an institution cannot be run progressively on a basis of fear.

— Mary B. Harris

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

— Joanne Greenberg

The more we demand that institutions allow us to be who we are, the more they're going to have to.

— Stephen Herbits