Institutions Quotes

1523 Institutions quotes by 1010 unique authors

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve? — Peter Drucker
I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like… — Tony Abbott
I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for… — Tony Abbott
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say… — William O. Douglas
No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something different to survive. — Lou Gerstner
Applaud us when we prevail, correct us when we fail; but, above all, do not let this indispensable, irreplaceable institution wither, languish or perish as… — Kofi Annan
Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions. — Barack Obama
To me the gold price takes the form of a very uncomplicated formula, and all you have to do is divide one by 'n.' And… — James Grant
If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces;… — George Soros
Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society. — Unknown Author
The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a… — E. M. Forster
Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild… — John Conyers
I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of… — Alan Greenspan
The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the… — Alan Greenspan
Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation. — Vladimir Lenin
There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest… — Diane Ravitch
I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I… — Robert Irvine
And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc,… — Samuel P. Huntington
If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither… — Amartya Sen
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility — Jonathan Mayhew
They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in the… — Jonathan Mayhew
All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing… — Thomas Berry

Who Wrote These Institutions Quotes

1,010 authors contributed a total of 1,523 Institutions Quotes, led by these top contributors: