Institutions Quotes

The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

The Costa Rica experience shows that with dedicated resources, creative institutions, and a sound legal framework, deforestation can be reversed and forest cover expanded.

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

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

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

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.

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

Financial institutions make us nervous when they're trying to do well.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.

Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.

The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions

Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty in place of international institutions.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.

The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup against the country's democratic institutions.

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

The Democrats, because they believe in socialism, redistribution, forced the banks and financial institutions to make the risky loans.

We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.

The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and worsening corruption of institutions.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.

Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."

No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.

And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.

Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.