Institutions Quotes · Page 64

I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your…

— Anonymous

If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance…

— Charlie Pierce

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

— Horatio Alger

There is close to zero trust in institutions in Afghanistan. The mobile carriers have more trust than the banks.

— Jan Chipchase

There was a time traditionally - say, GM in the 1950s - it was trying to develop a consumer base that would…

— Noam Chomsky

... [L]ess than at any time does a simple reproduction of reality tell us anything about reality. A photograph of the Krupp…

— Walter Benjamin

If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve…

— John Allen Fraser

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions…

— Thomas Frank

The subprime disaster was a result of financial bombs - derivatives - exploding in financial institutions such as AIG and Lehman Brothers,…

— Robert Kiyosaki

If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.

— Warren Buffett

Institutions like mutual funds often worry that if they disclose their plans to buy a stock, copycats will move quickly and drive…

— Alex Berenson

As long as we see church life as a meeting we’ll miss its reality and its depth. If the truth were told,…

— Wayne Jacobsen

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

— Edward Abbey

For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

I'm not saying we're going to win. I am saying rebellion becomes a way to protect your own dignity. Corporations are, theologically…

— Chris Hedges

Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of…

— Neil Patrick Harris

Marriage is under attack from so many different areas. There should be benefits associated with married people. Life is unfair. Maybe you…

— Ann Coulter

In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an…

— Noam Chomsky

No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

— Murray Levin

Belonging to the Catholic Church gives your support to an organization that conceals and protects child rapists. Again, not as a few…

— Greta Christina

Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore…

— Douglas MacArthur

In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

— Russell M. Nelson

The institution of marriage is obsolete.

— Jane Fonda

I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

— Gary L. Francione