Quotes About Institutions

Men are ruled by ideas, sentiments, and customs—matters which are of the essence of ourselves. Institutions and laws are the outward manifestation of our character, the expression of its needs. Being its outcome, institutions and laws cannot change this character.

?nsan? yöneten, özümüzdeki unsurlard?r, yani fikirler, duygular ve adetler. Kurumlar ve kanunlarsa ruhumuzun harici kar??l???, ihtiyaçlar?n?n bir ifadesidir.

Al terminar el siglo XX, México había construido las instituciones necesarias para disipar ese fantasma. Las elecciones habían empezado a ser creíbles. Había empezado a existir y a manifestarse una ciudadanía real. Por primera vez en la historia política de México los partidos políticos atraían el voto verdadero de una mayoría de mexicanos que efectivamente acudían a votar. Las elecciones

No hay fenómeno de más larga duración en la historia política de México que el intento de suplir con instituciones representativas, democráticas y republicanas el vacío dejado por el derrumbe del imperio español y la desaparición del rey como fuente legítima de autoridad.

Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are.

At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

I would go to the European institutions, I would demand for the French people four sovereignties: territorial - our borders; monetary and budgetary; economic; and legislative. Either the European Union says yes to me, or they would say no, and I would say to the French, there is no only other solution but to leave the E.U.

While religious institutions should be able to pick and choose which unions they bless, civil governments should issue marriage licenses to all couples.

Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.

I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have a unique, dual perspective. To sidestep any biases I might have, I use the objective lens of the stock market to discover which policies actually delivered prosperity to emerging markets.

Digital Asset has a talented team and technology that is uniquely positioned to solve challenging settlement issues facing global financial institutions.

The United States took the lead in shaping the norms, rules and institutions of what became the liberal international order, including the United Nations, the international financial institutions and the Marshall Plan.

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

Existing antitrust law in the United States addresses mainly the harm from price gouging, not the other kinds of harm caused by these platforms, such as stifling innovation and undermining the institutions of democracy.

I think the institutions, principles, norms, and traditions that make the United States of America genuinely exceptional are at serious risk. It has been hard to think about anything else.

I went through quite a few establishments that maybe weren't great for myself - security units, youth-offender places. I guess that was going to the lions' den. Social services said, 'You've got to go to some sort of school.'

The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature.

Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application.

This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset.

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.