Institutions Quotes

There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.

The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.

All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco.

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Home is the seminary of all other institutions.

Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.

Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions.

To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.

Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism

Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes by the horrible force called music.

The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend.

I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

The downfall of democratic institutions in Russia doesn't add to the self-confidence of either [Vladimir] Putin or his friends, as the loss of power could lead to repercussions in Russian society.

Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The less powerful, the less transparent.

The days of discriminating against religious institutions simply because they are religious must come to an end.

Our plan will not favor religious institutions over nonreligious institutions. As president, I'm interested in what is constitutional and I'm interested in what works.

So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions.

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.

Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.

Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

The institution of marriage is obsolete.

Many, many times I would shake my head in dismay at the goings-on in the House of Commons, but that never caused me to lose my fundamental faith in the values of our parliamentary institutions.

I am in favor of the European institutions being led for the next two-and-a-half years as they have been thus far. We need stability.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

Join the crazed institution of the stars.

Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be; that no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.

How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.

Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.

I think that Jesus-dependency has taken over our minds, and too many of our institutions.