Institutions Quotes

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

Satan is attacking the great institutions of America. This is a spiritual war. I believe in good and evil.

Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.

America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.

There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions.

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 is the foundation of education.

The communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They've tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn't they try to corrupt the Catholic Church? It is a big enemy.

People make institutions, not vice versa.

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.

The more we demand that institutions allow us to be who we are, the more they're going to have to.

Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.

So we're all living spirit. It's not about isms and schims or religions. Religions are almost like political institutions, but the heart of it is the spirituality.

[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.

Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.

Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.

I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.

We want the National Intelligence, we want the Police, we want the Scorpions, any other institutions, the tax people, and so on, the totality of these bodies, to get together.

No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.

Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead.

We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.

Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.

I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution.

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 instance, and schools.

Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.

Many of the local institutions and politicians and veterinarians are involved in illegal trade. To crack that down, it's a big crime and big names to reveal.

It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.

Any two public institutions appealing to the same set of people are apt to appeal in the same terms.

You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.

I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.

When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.

The acquiring of intelligence doesn't require an institution if you got the heart to seek knowledge, and the balls to use it as wisely as those who came before you.

If people institute wrong institutions, wrong institutions do not just produce wrong people, but wrong people who understand and accept mediocrity as an institution

Psychiatric institutions are filled with lots of normal people.

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free.

Family ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should.