Quotes with institutions

  • Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
  • What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
  • As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
  • 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.
  • No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
  • 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.
  • Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
  • Well, the U.S., of course, is the world's largest economy. It's about a quarter of the world's output. It's also home to many of the largest financial institutions and financial markets.
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  • Albert Einstein Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Walter Bagehot A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carl Bernstein 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.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Thomas Paine All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Roland Barthes All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Billy Graham America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Campbell Brown As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Adam Schiff At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Jose Manuel Barroso Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.
    Democracy could have saved Europe from the single currency (2015)
    Jose Manuel Barroso
    Portuguese politician (1956 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley 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.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Bill Drayton Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Simone Weil Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Bruce Springsteen 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.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Plato 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.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Cal Thomas Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Bill Gross Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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