Institutions Quotes

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The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police… — Kim Stanley Robinson
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law… — Leo Tolstoy
Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints. — Woody Allen
It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on… — Bill Gates
Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed. — Alexis de Tocqueville
I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It… — Ronald Reagan
School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming… — Ivan Illich
We should listen first and foremost to our own experience We should stop looking for saviors.Society has not existed for thousands of years because it… — Thomas Sowell
Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just… — Thomas Sowell
Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as… — Thomas Sowell
What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social… — Ludwig von Mises
We do not read (the law) to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution's need to maintain order and safety, ... We have no… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it. — James J. Kilpatrick
Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in… — Carl von Clausewitz
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of… — James F. Cooper
We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions. — Vicente Fox
everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest… — Carroll Quigley
I knew it was unrealistic to think I could build an institution overnight. But if I took baby steps, eventually it would happen. — Russell Simmons
We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has… — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push… — John Shelby Spong
The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent… — Arlen Specter
Competition can be viewed in two ways. It can be viewed in a negative light and be seen as destructive, but one can also have… — Lee R. Raymond
Our nation needs the BRAC process. No institution can remain successful if it does not adapt to its constantly changing environment. Our armed forces must… — Anthony Principi
In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before,… — David Starkey

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