Institutions Quotes · Page 37

Certainly, if we believe in democracy and democratic systems, when [Benazir Bhutto] failed to pass any legislation, really, at all in her…

— Fatima Bhutto

You know, there's a growing level of disenchantment with governing institutions in Brazil. And in a sense, it's a healthy development because…

— Simon Romero

The Democratic Party is the - was the largest and most powerful institution supporting slavery in the English-speaking world. And it is…

— Sean Hannity

Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality…

— Martin Filler

There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens…

— Charlie Pierce

We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution…

— Bashar al-Assad

The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions

— Ibrahim Ali

I found that the walls that are created by the institutions of health care are very problematic, and I felt not good…

— Jill Stein

There are certain indicia of marriage - certain legal and social consequences and certain legitimacy - which if given to some relationship…

— Dallin H. Oaks

The Federal Reserve is one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the…

— Louis Thomas McFadden

Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the…

— W. Cleon Skousen

Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational…

— Edwin Boring

Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously…

— Robert Nozick

One of my biggest regrets was the fact that as an institution and an international community we could not stop the war…

— Kofi Annan

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

— Paddy Ashdown

Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

— Elizabeth Warren

Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget…

— Tom Peters

Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider…

— Mitch Kapor

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic…

— Lee R. Raymond

Over the longer term, the institutions and powers of the EU will continue to expand and certain policymaking powers, heretofore vested in…

— David Cameron

[I] was always my dream to attend the Art Institute. I have always had this zeal to become the best that I…

— St. Lucia

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to…

— Henry David Thoreau

If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there…

— E. M. Forster

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It…

— John Steinbeck