Institutions Quotes · Page 75

The biggest issue for me is whether large numbers of Americans can begin to think that government can actually help make the…

— George Packer

What institutions or galleries assume is that videos are available and that they can just stream them for free without taking into…

— Hito Steyerl

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

— Salman Rushdie

The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

Therefore those governing the State ought primarily to devote themselves to the service of individual groups and of the whole commonwealth, and…

— Pope Leo XIII

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the…

— Mitt Romney

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

— Murray Gurfein

One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest…

— Mary B. Harris

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own,…

— Louis Kahn

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions…

— Philip Yancey

[The U.S. Treasury] can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more…

— Warren Buffett

When people criticize me for not having any respect for existing structures and institutions, I protest. I say I give institutions and…

— Myles Horton

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.

— Edward Everett

The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.

— Florence King

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States…

— Anonymous

One of the most important things for any leader is to never let anyone else define who you are. And you define…

— Ginni Rometty

Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit…

— Kate Middleton

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love…

— James J. Kilpatrick

I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has…

— Milton Friedman

Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B…

— Graydon Carter

The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over…

— Henry Adams

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the…

— Thorstein Veblen

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though…

— Samuel Johnson

Prior to the 2008 recession, many financial institutions were engaging in 'proprietary lending,' where a bank would invest funds for its own…

— Seth Moulton