Institutions Quotes

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their institutions.

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards.

We do need great change in Burma. We are trying to build a new society, a society where basic human rights are respected, and where our people enjoy all the benefits of democratic institutions.

Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.

You [as a president] have to have a strong team around you. You have to have respect for institutions and the process to make good decisions because you are inherently reliant on other folks.

Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.

I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time.

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.

Things that Hillary Clinton advocates are antithetical to Christian values: killing babies, redefining institutions established by God.

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional marriage, which foster common goals.

These are economic issues that should get resolved. There are creative solutions to every problem. Hopefully between the lending institutions and the city, we'll be able to find creative solutions.

Institutions do live on their history.

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the three original TV networks.

My own view is that institutions are a glory, and for all their imperfections, something really to be proud of. It is true that things can be a lot better than they are. It's okay to emphasize that.

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

I think that the candidates who are doing it [not debating] are doing a great disservice to the party. It's a sign of an unhealthy institution.

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their institutions.

Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

Trust has shifted from institutions to individuals.

Sometimes to think about why some institutions are stable, it's interesting to go one generation back and look at the author of that stability.

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.

In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.

There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.

It's part of the institution of teshuva, if you make a mistake, you have to restore it as you can.

When an institution goes through an inflection point, it has to institutionalise itself. That institutionalisation requires governance to be put in place, governance processes.

Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from our weaknesses and give meaning to life.

One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us free.

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.

A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.

If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the destructiveness of our activities and institutions.