Quotes About Institutions

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.

Public universities are the lifeblood of modern democracies.

Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in. When I worked with Clark Terry, that was the beginning of school for me, and Harry Belafonte and Sergio Mendes, they were all my universities.

The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that.

Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.

Modi has misused institutions like the ED, Intelligence Bureau, CBI, RBI and National Statistical Commission for political gains and harassing his political opponents. Modi lost his credibility by all these acts.

As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status quo. I want to help people, to work with institutions or create ones when they don't exist.

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.

change should mean more participation—but by informed voters through institutions that are not constantly and immediately at the mercy of a majority.

And when voters lose control of these important decisions, they risk the hijacking of their democracy by ignorant demagogues, or the more quiet and gradual decay of their democratic institutions into authoritarian technocracy. Experts, too, have an important responsibility in a democracy, and it is one they've shirked in recent decades.