Quotes About Institutions

Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.

Every public institution in the United States and most private ones are corrupt.

I'm grateful that I've enjoyed the support of libraries, bookshops and institutional funders.

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.

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

Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.

I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

I am good at conceptualizing and building institutions.

One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.

There are a large number of institutions in this country which we should not politicise.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

If the church adopts a school, and the school has kids, and the kids have parents, well, then you've reconnected the hub of a community, because you've brought together its three most fundamental institutions - church, schools, and family.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

We can make American governing institutions better, but we can't make them better if nobody wants to go into them because we're bashing them.

I'm a big believer in institutions.

I don't believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to shareholders. I am not saying that institutions should be set up for charity.

As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

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

I believe good governments have nothing to hide. We want to ensure we maintain confidence in our public institutions.

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions.