Quotes About Institutions

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

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions.

For most Americans, work is central to their experience of the world, and the corporation is one of the fundamental institutions of American life, with an enormous impact, for good and ill, on how we live, think, and feel.

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.

I'm a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

Those who perpetrate fraud against our financial institutions will be met with the full force of law enforcement.

It is impossible to understand the financial health of big financial institutions and their potential impact on the market. They don't even understand it themselves.

I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated.

I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.

The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.

It is human nature to favor individuals and institutions who we know or for whom we feel responsible.

My husband is in branding. He brands places - cities, institutions.

Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.

I just don't get on with institutions. I need simple relationships with people who believe in me.

I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.

We know what we are. Our business is originating, distributing, and managing capital for individuals and institutions.

I've got a pretty iconoclastic attitude about all institutions myself. And I just think the church was corrupted right after Christ was killed.

It's not a secret that we have a crisis in confidence in public institutions in our country.

We have institutions that have been allowed to become too big to fail because we had all kinds of flaws in our financial infrastructure, in the whole way over-the-counter derivatives work.

We need the media as the foundation of functioning institutions.