Institutions Quotes · Page 35

People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor…

— Muhammad Yunus

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an…

— Andy Rooney

Millennials are not deeply familiar with school choice, and have some reservations, especially about the types of institutions that a student might…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

“It's not the institution which makes its students famous but the students who achieve great heights make their institutions famous.”

— Amit Abraham

One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.

— Harry S. Truman

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The problem with monasteries, ashrams, convents is these institutions become extremely political. In other words, they're really small societies, and much of…

— Frederick Lenz

The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks…

— Harold Lasswell

I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book.…

— John Cage

Behind the abstraction known as 'the markets' lurks a set of institutions designed to maximize the wealth and power of the most…

— Doug Henwood

When a republic's most venerable institutions no longer operate as they were intended, it becomes possible for small cabals to usurp power,…

— T. D. Allman

Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them…

— Douglas Massey

In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast…

— Eugene V. Debs

Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an…

— Paul Smith

Through its imperialist system Britain brought about untold suffering of millions of people. And this is an historical fact. To be able…

— Nelson Mandela

The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to…

— Michael Ignatieff

The presently existing global financial and monetary system will disintegrate during the near term. The collapse might occur this spring, or summer,…

— Lyndon LaRouche

It is impossible! It has never happened - it cannot happen in the very nature of things. Marriage is something against nature.…

— Rajneesh

The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an…

— Siegfried Kracauer

If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of…

— James Connolly

Financial institutions are not being bailed out as a favor to them or their stockholders. In fact, stockholders have come out worse…

— Thomas Sowell

In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the…

— John Dewey

It's hard not to hate. People, things, institutions. When they break your spirit and take pleasure in watching you bleed, hate is…

— J-Ax

I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are…

— Clare Short

Many, many times I would shake my head in dismay at the goings-on in the House of Commons, but that never caused…

— Jason Kenney

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions…

— Daniel Kahneman

The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.

— Peter Drucker

It isn't given to man to be able to run a financial institution where different interest-rate scenarios will prevail on all of…

— Warren Buffett

We are called to serve the common good by engaging with political and other institutions, even in our pluralistic society. We bring…

— John I. Jenkins

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

— James A. Garfield

Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is…

— Billy Sunday

The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.

— Helmuth James Graf von Moltke

What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

Because of Murray State's size, I was able to receive more one-on-one time with my instructors and also more stage time. This…

— Chrishell Stause

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

— Herbert Hoover

The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government…

— Mark Zuckerberg

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

— Stokely Carmichael