Institutions Quotes

Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers.

I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult life.

The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.

A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on.

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.

Anybody who has watched government from the inside recognizes that governments need institutions, need ways to respond to crises.

Institutions too often focus their energy preserving the problem to which they are a solution than to innovate their way to success.

Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes.

I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time.

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.

Marriage is not an institution to be tampered with by mankind, and certainly not to be tampered with by those who are doing so simply for their own purposes.

I have tremendous confidence in the ability of government institutions and the American people to do what is right to make sure that our democracy stays on the right track.

There are not enough forums where institutions invite their workers to share their failures in a constructive way so the organization can move forward.

If we ignore international institutions, it will lead only to lawlessness and anarchy.

The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential.

It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.

Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.

The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable.

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.

The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership.

One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.

My privilege as a white Jewish American in Israel is a major factor in getting me so much access to the key institutions of the Jewish state.

Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.

Because religious institutions are not afraid to talk about love as a goal, they are likely to be more effective at providing community services.

Creativity is not merely about cute pictures drawn by kindergartners. It is about the ability to create new enterprises, organizations, and institutions that fundamentally change society.

The budget targets imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, combined with the effects of the devaluation, trigger the collapse of public investment.

When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution.

The court's recent decisions have made life more difficult for the democratic institutions that perform the day- to-day work of our nation.

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 our society.

Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals.

Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.

Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone. Security also lies in the value of our free institutions.

The Congress' name of 'INC' must be changed to 'Institutions Neglecting Congress'. Their habit is to misuse, abuse and reduce institutions.

We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers.

Sehwag is a miracle, Sehwag is an institution

There are a lot of things that can be done within the framework of existing institutions which would be very valuable for people.

Modifying the core institutions of the society is no small challenge.

U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here.

I would, however, question the implication that there is some novelty in this beyond modalities [of Mikhail Bakunin], which naturally change as institutions change and develop.

I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

You would hope that the supposed best of American educational institutions would teach its students about America as an institution.

Digital technology is the solvent leaching the glue out of all of our traditional institutions.

While the United States (US) can view the war as a success, Europe must see it as a failure for it and, in particular, for the institutions of the European Union (EU).