Quotes About Institutions

When we forget, or wilfully choose to ignore, the intractability of human behaviour, the complexity of human institutions, and the probability of unanticipated consequences, we do so at great risk, and often immense human cost.

La volonté affirmée de conférer à l'ONU le soin de prévenir les conflits, ou de tenter sa médiation pour y mettre fin, marque une avancée historique dans la conscience collective de l'humanité. L'ONU enseigne l'art de faire la paix et de dénouer les conflits par des approches adaptées dans plusieurs institutions, véritables écoles de la tolérance et du compromis créées à cette fin.

Mais la société n'est pas davantage apte à canaliser les pulsions agressives qui caractérisent la puberté, car les réponses institutionnelles ont elles-mêmes disparu : le scoutisme, les patronages, les mouvements d'action catholique, les mouvements de jeunesse laïques, les Jeunesses musicales de France… Que reste-t-il de tout cela aujourd'hui ? Le service militaire lui-même a disparu ; or il représentait une sorte de rite initiatique au moment où le jeune

When this faculty of imagination is not kept alive, there is no more story to be told, and institutions begin to stiffen and become dogmatic. Their objectifications then take on the quality of absolutes. When imagination becomes stuck or frozen, creation and poetry are no longer possible, and this also closes the door to democratic processes as well the arts and sciences. If people lack imagination, how can they find solutions to the challenges of life?

Like it or not, football serves as the front door to institutions, with the exception of the Ivy League," Floyd explained. "The reputation of a school is predicated on athletics. Football is first. Basketball is second. If you have a successful football program, it will support all the other revenue and non-revenue sports.

We are capable of regaining our reverence for life, of replacing the drive to conquer with the will to cooperate, of remaking our engineered institutions, including our corporations, into living systems.

networks of social relations and institutions which have the effect of sustaining a combination of actions, cultures, and practices which then reproduce racialized inequalities over time.

Colourblind racism asserts that there are no real problems with racism in our society, that challenges stem from individuals rather than our institutions and collective thinking and behavior.

After a decade of all-volunteer advocacy, I have come to view every incarceration as a missed opportunity to love and transform; as a loss of time, life, and dreams of our community; and as state violence. Some of our greatest assets and resources in this struggle are exiled from our communities and languishing in this nation's labyrinth of violent institutions.

the eve of the Civil War, Washington College's student body—just 93 students in 1859—lagged behind the student population of the University of Virginia (419), Hampden-Sydney College (119), and even

un primer agotamiento que, tal vez, habría podido ser definitivo, si las instituciones de la democracia no hubieran sucumbido al monstruoso, incomprensible síndrome de Estocolmo, que aún hoy, cuando termina la primera década del siglo XXI, les impide romper formal y expresamente sus vínculos con el general que la secuestró el 18 de julio de 1936

real revolutions replace institutions as well as technologies. And they do more: They break down and reorganize what social psychologists call the role structure of society.

We should put behind us the era of diminishing trust in public institutions and weakened confidence in our country's public leaders.

The biggest problem Haiti has is the weakness of its public institutions.

Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings the whole country down.

Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.

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.

Unless public officials are wealthy and fund their own campaigns, the only place they can turn to is lobbyists and institutions like labor unions and corporations.

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

Mr. Modi is responsible for everyone's misery, demonetisation disaster, destruction of all democratic institutions. He is creating problems for everybody: for political leaders, for media, for corporates. He is not following any democratic values.

The PMF should be loyal only to Iraq, not to anyone else: loyal to Iraqi official institutions, the commander in chief in the country, rather than political parties or any other force outside or inside Iraq.

I'm an FDR Democrat, and I really believe that the most important thing is the institutions of political parties, and engaging in those institutions, and, where you disagree with them, speaking up and sharing your disagreement.

The Catalan institutions and political parties have to be consistent, because they have the democratic legitimacy of the ballot box and they can't pass certain responsibilities on to civil society.