Institutions Quotes

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Democracy as a promise means that society can never be just enough and that the self-reflection and struggles that enable all members of the community… — Henry Giroux
The faltering of our suburban living arrangement is probably certain. The response of suburbanites is not. Will they elect maniacs who promise to make America… — James Howard Kunstler
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. — William O. Douglas
Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large. — William Hamilton
The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play… — Girma Woldegiorgis
A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we… — Lee R. Raymond
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result… — John Acton
Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of… — Mike Rogers
At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass… — John Hutton
But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways… — John Hutton
We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor… — John Hutton
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the… — Albert Bushnell Hart
All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco. — Donald Evans
The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation. — C L R James
In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. — James McHenry
Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand… — Ferdinand de Saussure
Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the… — Walter Rauschenbusch
The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions. — Henry James Sumner Maine
The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions,… — Douglass North
We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed to craft the… — DeForest Soaries

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