Institutional Quotes

105 quotes by 95 authors

The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice. — John Henry Cox
For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity,… — Ronald Reagan
There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no mistake… — Mark Ruffalo
Many people perceive Christianity as something institutional - rather than as an encounter with Christ - which explains why they don't see it as a… — Pope Benedict XVI
Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional… — Daniel D. Polsby
...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of the more laborious… — Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod
There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a literature generated by… — Martin Shubik
Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path to survival. Over… — Douglass North
The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among… — Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the… — Lewis H. Lapham
Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between… — J. G. Ballard
We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors of literature happily… — Harold Bloom
Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly uncooperative people. That… — Sara Parkin
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it… — John le Carre
The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes… — George Soros
It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political. — Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments. No… — Mike A. Males
Be the Church - that is, be an evangelical movement that tells the world of God's passionate love for humanity. That, not institutional maintenance, is… — George Weigel
I do not know how history will judge me, but let me say that I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to transform… — Ratan Tata

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