Institutions Quotes · Page 18

I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

— Paul Haggis

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

— Anonymous

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

— Robert K. Merton

The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

— Philip Berrigan

Any two public institutions appealing to the same set of people are apt to appeal in the same terms.

— Walter Millis

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

— Henry Mintzberg

People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact,…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.

— Norman Ornstein

The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most…

— Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

The role of the press and the protections which we afford it are today more important than ever before, because we dwell…

— Rose Bird

Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila…

— Jack Newfield

When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.

— William Greider

The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of…

— Henry Giroux

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

— Michel Foucault

We're not free because other people are nice, maybe other people aren't nice that day. We're free because we expect the institutions…

— David Frum

The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone, Security also lies in the value of our free institutions. A…

— Murray Gurfein

The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both…

— Michel Foucault

It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had…

— Bill Gates

What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To…

— Martin Filler

Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s,…

— Barack Obama

Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine…

— Michael Ignatieff

I think because the show ["Grant MacLaren"] is essentially a hopeful show. The show says that as bleak as the future is,…

— Eric McCormack

Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps…

— Eric Kierans

“She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that…

— Harper Lee

With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart…

— William Hazlitt

Force was the factor in the government of the world when Christ was born, and force was the source and exercise of…

— Chauncey Depew

Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair…

— Aldous Huxley

I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our…

— Ivan Illich

If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term…

— Ludwig von Mises

Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.

— Charlie Munger

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.

— Tim Holden

The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.

— Harriet Martineau

The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.

— Frank Chodorov

[ Zionists] dominate the Banking institutions of America and they are the biggest contributors in politics.

— David Duke

My husband is in branding. He brands places - cities, institutions.

— Tzipi Livni

Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell

— Emily Dickinson

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

— Shunryu Suzuki