Institutions Quotes

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

But, you know, I'm presiding over an institution that was designed not to work.

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.

A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

Powerful groups with anti-Christian worldviews dominate major media and major educational institutions.

It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy.

Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions.

What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?

Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society.

Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

First of all, farmers should work with universities and research institutions in the country, and hopefully with the government.

The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

Seven years is a short time in the history of a country's democracy. But in this short time, people of Bhutan have developed faith in the institutions of democracy.

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.

We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.

Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.

Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press.

Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.

There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.

In China, we are considering ways of resolving our problems by improving our institutions.

Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.

The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.