Institutions Quotes

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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. — John W. Gardner
It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed… — Henry Louis Gates
Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and… — Timothy Geithner
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as… — Charles Horton Cooley
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever… — Stephen Covey
My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes. — Unknown Author
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. — Charles Darwin
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education. — Angela Davis
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. — Richard Dawkins
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free. — Jim DeMint
I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person… — Jack Dee
Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And… — Jacques Derrida
Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution. — Jacques Derrida
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions… — Alan Dershowitz
Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit. — Bruce Dickinson
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be… — Peter Drucker
Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to… — Andrea Dworkin
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions. — Marianne Faithfull
The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels. — William Hague
What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most… — Gary Hamel
The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations. — Arthur Henderson
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. — Gordon B. Hinckley
To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally… — Abbie Hoffman
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody… — Alice Hoffman

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