Institutions Quotes

• Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.

  Milton Berle

  Marriage, Men, Wife

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• Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Community, May, Dignity

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5014, Delphi Classics

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• Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Taken, Decision, World

  "Democracy could have saved Europe from the single currency". Interview with Daniel Hannan, capx.co. February 5, 2015.

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• I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Strong, Imf, International

  "Quest Means Business" with Richard Quest, www.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.

  James Madison

  Happiness, Safety, Political

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.216, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Inspirational, Trust, Peace

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• Our nuclear free status is a statement of our belief that we and our fellow human beings can build the institutions which will one day allow us all to renounce the weapons of mass destruction. We are a small country and what we can do is limited. But in this as in every other great issue, we have to start somewhere.

  David Lange

  Country, Mass Destruction, Issues

  David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work force itself, the community in which it is located, users of its products or services, institutions that compete for the same resources. These interests should be directly represented in democratic structures that displace and eliminate private ownership of the means of production or resources, an anachronism with no legitimacy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Community, Decision

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• This is the one international institution we have in which governments get together to work collectively for a common purpose. International crises, by definition, require international solutions. Peacekeeping is a response to conflict, is a response to situations in which often it is not the business of any one particular country to get into. It seems to me, therefore, that the world will for the foreseeable future need peacekeeping.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Country, Government, Common Purpose

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• If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by which we handle our growing interdependence. We do not have a world government, but we do have an increasingly complex network of institutions that are concerned with global governance. They are central to our future and international human rights law

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Mean, World Government, Rights

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• Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities have a dominant voice in running the institutions that affect their lives?

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Voice, Should Have

  Noam Chomsky, Carlos Peregrín Otero (2003). “Chomsky on Democracy & Education”, p.337, Psychology Press

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• History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

  Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

  Real, History, Facts

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• The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

  C. Everett Koop

  People, Foundation, Archives

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• As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Friendship, United States, Advancement

  Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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.

  Evan Bayh

  America, Challenges, Energy

  "Why I'm Leaving the Senate" by Evan Bayh, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 21, 2010.

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• The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.

  Bernie Sanders

  Responsibility, Safety, Risk

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.

  Hans Haacke

  Educational, Museums, Views

  "Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere". Book by Michael Kimmelman, 1998.

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• The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

  William Ralph Inge

  Church, Half, Speak

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• We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed.

  Dee Hock

  Nature, Struggle, Years

  "The Trillion-Dollar Vision of Dee Hock". Interview with M. Mitchell Waldrop, www.fastcompany.com. October 31, 1996.

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• Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Lying, Heart, People

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• The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

  Jose Saramago

  Imf, World, Democratic

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

  Quincy Jones

  Mother, Father, Years

  "Grammy Legend Award". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.

  Frank N. Newman

  Careers, Important, Doe

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• The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

  Horatio Alger

  Age, Chivalry, Form

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• An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

  Clara Barton

  Selfish, Evil, Suffering

  Clara Barton (1899). “The Red Cross in peace and war”

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