Institutions Quotes

Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.

I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running.

... inventions and purely human institutions.

The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.

I think society is entitled to recognize marriage as an institution that involves one man and one woman.

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

Human beings are not perfect. Their institutions are not perfect, but they have to keep trying. And America has to help people keep trying.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst — and that brings the whole country down.

India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.

The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.

There exists no more democratic institution than the market

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.

I've never been engaged. I definitely believe in the institution of marriage.

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.

I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.

We should stand by our allies, but we should also stand by our ideals and work with our allies and encourage them to live up to the democratic institutions and traditions that they enjoy.

When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren't the kind of institutions I had in mind.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

We are victims of - the DNC and other institutions are victims of a cybercrime led by thugs.

Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.

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 protection from their slaves.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.