Quotes About Institutions

Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.

Let me be clear: Those who seek to undermine our democratic institutions, indiscriminately destroy our businesses and attack our law enforcement officers and fellow citizens are a threat to the homeland.

Nationwide injunctions undermine the democratic process, depart from history and tradition, violate constitutional principles, and impede sound judicial administration, all at the cost of public confidence in our institutions and particularly in our courts as apolitical decision-makers dispassionately applying objective law.

It is simply not possible to achieve the 'freedom' from E.U. economic institutions that Brexiters want without undermining Britain's economy and security.

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

Corruption in state-owned enterprises and other public institutions has undermined our government's programs to address poverty and unemployment.

So you could have a very institutionally well-developed economy that's still very low in terms of its technological success. That would be unexpected.

The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential.

It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.

The great lie can only be defeated by the New World Order. The sooner the New World Order is established by the institutions of the world, the sooner the suffering caused by the lie will end.

If people institute wrong institutions, wrong institutions do not just produce wrong people, but wrong people who understand and accept mediocrity as an institution

A lot of those old, 19th-century sanitariums, mental institutions, there are a number of them left here, old prisons, things like that, Eastern State Penitentiary... They're really, really spooky.

I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the community.

For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he? We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders.

I think institutions that are bureaucratic often try to squeeze from the top down, and they don't have good results on the ground level.

Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.

We need to get a stable Afghanistan that can ensure the security of Americans, Europeans, and others on the one hand, but more fundamentally our own democratic rights and institutions.

Every morning when I pick up the newspaper and read about an earthquake in Japan or problems in European financial institutions, the first question I ask our staff is 'What is money-market-fund exposure?'

I am very determined to stand up against any threat to the basic Democratic values and institutions of this country.

The advance of standard English culture was less assisted by government policy than by the sheer weight, wealth, and number of England's well-established cultural institutions.

There are a number of institutions globally where the Federal Reserve typically leads the U.S. effort to work with financial regulators from other countries, and we try to, to the extent possible, establish international standards for how - the amount of capital a bank should hold, for example, or how much.

True small-c conservatives should fight at every turn to preserve basic standards of conduct and institutions that have served our nation well.

Trump is a man who, for better or worse, stands in opposition to the institutions that dominate American political life.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.