Institutions Quotes

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.

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

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment.

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.

Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.

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

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.

We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.

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.

Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.

I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches.

We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works.

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.

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.

The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

These terrorist actions, prepared in cold blood, against the people, the society and the institutions of the United States are unprecedented in history.