Institutional Quotes
105 quotes by 95 authors
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I do not deny certain kinds of biological differences. But I always ask under what conditions, under what discursive and institutional conditions, do certain biological…
— Judith Butler
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Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by…
— Chris Hedges
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Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment,…
— Nicolas Berggruen
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I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits
— Stephan Jenkins
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One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health that I have read in my career in…
— Scott Harshbarger
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School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose their incentive to…
— Ivan Illich
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One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the…
— Nicholas Negroponte
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I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit?…
— J. Michael Bishop
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And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is the appropriate economic…
— Lucas Papademos
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Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of…
— Alasdair MacIntyre
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Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are…
— Noam Chomsky
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In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one’s grandchildren,…
— Noam Chomsky
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As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It…
— David Korten
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White Privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral outrage with no…
— Paula Rothenberg
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Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company…
— Warren Buffett
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Does management resist the institutional imperative?
— Warren Buffett
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First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle.
— Evan Sayet
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We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride…
— C.S. Lewis
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Most investors, both institutional and individual, will find that the best way to own common stocks (shares') is through an index fund that charges minimal…
— Warren Buffett
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Institutional United Methodism in America has given up on cities and given up on young people, so no surprise we are declining by nearly 100,000…
— Mark Tooley
Who Wrote These Institutional Quotes
95 authors contributed a total of 105 Institutional Quotes, led by these top contributors: