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Quotes About Institutional

Most individual and institutional decisions are designed to regulate the levels in stocks.
~ Donella H. Meadows
Reviewing the history of official racial classifications reminds us that these categories are not natural—and neither are the institutional inequities that race undergirds.
~ Dorothy Roberts
Cascadia has never had a dominant religious reference group. Historically no group has ever gained the political, religious or cultural traction to be "the" established religion in Oregon and Washington. In British Columbia neither the Catholic, Anglican nor United Church of Canada denominations succeeded in overcoming the disinterest in institutional religion of most people in the province (Burkinshaw).
~ Douglas Todd
All of the marketplaces like Prosper, LendingClub, etc., as they get larger, they flip from being retail capital to institutional capital.
~ Naval Ravikant
The mainstream media choose to flaunt story lines that make white America appear guilty of continued institutional racism, while black racism against whites is ignored as an acceptable disposition given our nation's history.
~ Andrew Breitbart
Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework.
~ George Papandreou
Whoever can survive the stress involved in every institutional/documentation process, etc in Nigeria can survive anywhere.
~ OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
The Selchester police station was like every other in England – square and imposing on the outside, shabby and institutional on the inside.
~ Anselm Audley
The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.
~ Scott Cook
I think the U.S. is conflicted. When it comes to our own health care, we all want the best - access to the latest and most important technology. At the same time, health care is typically purchased in an institutional setting. So we purchase it in the aggregate, but we consume it as individuals.
~ Ron Williams
I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.
~ Tim Curry
If democratic majorities come to believe that transferring social control to governmental and private institutional elites is necessary to guarantee virtue and safety, then it will happen.
~ Rod Dreher
The social justice cultists of our day are pale imitations of Lenin and his fiery disciples. Aside from the ruthless antifa faction, they restrict their violence to words and bullying within bourgeois institutional contexts. They prefer to push around college administrators, professors, and white-collar professionals. Unlike the Bolsheviks, who were hardened revolutionaries, SJWs get their way not by shedding blood but by shedding tears.
~ Rod Dreher
Remaining independent and functioning autonomously in the university is necessary, especially for the critical intellectual who does not see institutional favors, decorations, and promotions as the goal of our work but understands that the creation of critical masses of minoritized subjects of all types within this stubborn place and other like it is the prize.
~ Roderick A. Ferguson
By 2000, the rate of GIS development had risen above the normal growth trend of institutional management skills. This means that systems are now more capable than people, and the ordinary incremental growth rate in skills within an organization does not keep up with developments in technology. Recently, the relative curve of GIS development has leveled off somewhat, but management still has a lot of institutional learning to do before truly making use of the full capabilities of GIS.
~ Roger Tomlinson
Islam is in a formative period struggling to consolidate the vast reach won by both inspiration and force at its founding. Two centuries along, the faith of Muhammad hangs like an intricate veil: a religion still searching for institutional wholeness, a set of lessons to live by.
~ Ron Suskind
Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.
~ Tracy Kidder
In the sciences, the saga of Einstein's physics doctorate is revealing about institutional training and creativity. In the summer of 1900, Einstein graduated from the Swiss Polytechnic, but was not offered an assistant's post in the physics department
~ Andrew Robinson
Zombie churches exist to keep the lights on rather than to be the light in dark places; they turn inward rather than outward; they serve insiders and ignore outsiders. The paradox of institutional life is very much like the paradox of individual life: only those who are willing to die can truly live. Only institutions that squarely face their own decay and decline can avoid the fate of the zombies.
~ Andy Crouch
It is certainly the case that responsibility for diversity and equality is unevenly distributed. It is also the case that the distribution of this work is political: if diversity and equality work is less valued by organizations, then to become responsible for this work can mean to inhabit institutional spaces that are also less valued.
~ Sara Ahmed
Diversity workers could be described as institutional plumbers: they develop an expertise in how things get stuck, as well as where they get stuck.
~ Sara Ahmed
In 1965, in the Council's "Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests" (Pres-byterorum ordinis, 10), the Church proposed a new institutional form, called the "personal prelature." Such an institution could accommodate both clergy and lay members cooperating to accomplish specific pastoral tasks.
~ Scott Hahn
individual investors, as opposed to institutional ones, which is to say people who would be described anywhere but on Wall Street as private individuals—played an astonishingly large role in the whole affair, accounting for an unprecedented 56.8 per cent of the total volume.
~ John Brooks
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
~ Daniel Bell