Institutions Quotes

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

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.

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

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 believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

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.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

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.

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.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

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