Institutions Quotes - Page 10

• 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

  Government, People, Function

  Cal Thomas, Wayne Stayskal (2001). “The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas”

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• No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Average, Needs

  Peter F. Drucker (2009). “Concept of the Corporation”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

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• When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.

  Drew Barrymore

  People, Perfect, Locked Up

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• As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Writing, Government, Long

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• Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

  Jacques Derrida

  Territory, Certain, Reader

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• If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.

  E. M. Forster

  People, Atheism, Trying

  "Aspects of the Novel". Book by E. M. Forster, 1927.

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• We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience.

  Roger Brooke Taney

  Law, Looks, Slavery

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• From arts, to literature, to science, to the founding of Christian institutions, all of that has its roots in a biblical worldview, but when you fail to recognize that it's the systemic reality of the greatest civilization in the history of humanity, you can become apathetic about what you actually now have. We have something that generations of people did not have.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Art, Biblical

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

  John Conyers

  World, Lebanon, Violence

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• 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.

  Robert Irvine

  Running, Casinos, Restaurants

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• Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.

  Edward Said

  Teaching, Views, Style

  Orientalism introduction (1978)

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• No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something different to survive.

  Lou Gerstner

  Believe, Different, Needs

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• Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it within the people's reach, and teach them how to use and enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  School, Government, People

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1851). “The Republic of the United States of America: And Its Political Institutions, Reviewed and Examined”, p.62

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• Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society.

  Manuel Castells

  Change, Corporations, Collaboration

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• The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  School, Law, Trying

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• I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically -- I should say, fully -- hedged.

  Alan Greenspan

  Believe, Risk, Growth

  "Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy" by Peter S. Goodman, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2008.

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• The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions... Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.

  Alan Greenspan

  Keys, Risk, Resilience

  Alan Greenspan's address to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Forty-first Annual Conference on Bank Structure in Chicago, Illinois, www.federalreserve.gov. May 5, 2005.

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• Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Political, Foundation, Politics

  "The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism" by Vladimir Lenin , (p. 5), 1913.

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• There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.

  Diane Ravitch

  Running, Powerful, Common Purpose

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, West, Should

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• If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.

  Amartya Sen

  Justice, Choices, Strategy

  Amartya Sen (2011). “The Idea of Justice”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in the fear of God.’ When once magistrates act contrary to their office, and the end of their institution when they rob and ruin the public, instead of being guardians of its peace … they immediately cease to be the ordinance and ministers of God, and no more deserve that glorious character than common pirates and highwaymen.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Character, Office, Pirate

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• All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.

  Thomas Berry

  Earth, Program, Profession

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• A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

  Eric Ries

  Extremes, New Products, Humans

  "What is a startup?". www.startuplessonslearned.com. June 21, 2010.

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• Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.

  Eric Ries

  World, Chance, Existence

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