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Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.' -- Warren Buffett
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free. -- Bertrand Russell
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. -- Thomas Paine
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. -- George Carlin
Institutions do live on their history. -- Bob Hawke
Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are. -- Chuck Hagel
Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution -- Clay Shirky
Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind. -- Francis Bacon
Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective. -- Peter Drucker
Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program. -- Mary Douglas
The Congress' name of 'INC' must be changed to 'Institutions Neglecting Congress'. Their habit is to misuse, abuse and reduce institutions. -- Narendra Modi
Institutions too often focus their energy preserving the problem to which they are a solution than to innovate their way to success. -- Josh Linkner
Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle. -- George Bancroft
Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions. -- Ram Dass
Institutions are becoming naked, and if you're going to be naked â?¦ fitness is no longer optional. If you're going to be naked, you better get buff. -- Don Tapscott
Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes. -- Judith M Bardwick
Institutions like mutual funds often worry that if they disclose their plans to buy a stock, copycats will move quickly and drive up the stock before the purchase is completed. -- Alex Berenson
Marriage is a great institution. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but... -- H. L. Mencken
Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken. -- Chester A. Arthur
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Groucho Marx
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. -- Thomas Jefferson
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. -- George Santayana
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. -- Noam Chomsky
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. -- Al Capp
Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases. -- Milton Berle
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. -- Lee Iacocca
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO. -- Jose Saramago
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. -- Harold Wilson
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. -- Charles Darwin
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions. -- Michel Foucault
The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed. -- James Madison
Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. -- Noam Chomsky
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. -- Thorstein Veblen
For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in. -- Bruce Springsteen
I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy! -- Dalai Lama
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. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. -- Ivan Illich
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people. -- Robert Reich
As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained. -- Chester A. Arthur
In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes. From one's own self, no. -- Karl Hess
There is no evidence that more regulation makes things better. The most highly regulated industry in America is commercial banking, and that didn't save those institutions from making terrible decisions. -- Wilbur Ross
If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or misleading it may be, to gain traction. -- John Yarmuth
Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people. -- Nas
Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy. -- Benazir Bhutto
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. -- Abraham Lincoln
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. -- George Bernard Shaw
But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them. -- John Buchanan Robinson
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. -- Thomas Sowell
I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions are run by women. When that happens, it won't just mean happier women and families; it will mean more successful businesses and better lives for us all. -- Sheryl Sandberg
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out. -- Charlie Pierce
As Americans, we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free-thinking and engaged audience. -- Lester Holt
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. -- Alan Dershowitz
Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates - are integral to a functioning economy. As our living systems deteriorate, traditional forecasting and business economics become the equivalent of house rules on a sinking cruise ship. -- Paul Hawken
Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments' ability to protect the rights of their own people. -- Noreena Hertz
Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper. -- Bryant McGill
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should. -- Idries Shah
I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. -- Richard Dawkins
What we need to make a more decent society is not a few Splendid Samaritans but millions of Minimally Decent Samaritans. -- J. David Smith
Ignorance could be said is written in bold letters all over the institution that is supposed to be a shining light to the world -- Sunday Adelaja
Wananchi wakiamua kufanya kitu katika nchi yao kwa asilimia 100 serikali, na taasisi zake zote, haitaweza kuwazuia. Kwa sababu, mamlaka ya wananchi hushinda ya serikali. -- Enock Maregesi
From our primary schools to secondary schools, to tertiary institutions, there must be a mass campaign to educate our people in the value of labour. -- Sunday Adelaja
And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, which ones did he break, or replace--and with what confidence? -- John Irving
In effect, the poor person is a rich person left to fend for him or herself, without the support of institutions that help the person to take 'good' decisions. -- Daniel Cohen
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It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies. -- Ulysses S. Grant
The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isn't true. -- Andy Rooney
Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols. -- James Davison Hunter
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser. -- Keith Richards
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself. -- George Bernard Shaw
The church may update its techniques and methods, but it is always in service of the institutional organism. This is one of the reasons why the pedophile priest issue is and will remain an endemic disease in the Catholic Church. -- Darrel Ray
The institution was a cross between an orphanage and a slaughterhouse. Worst of all, it was run entirely by norms. The word alone would set my chin trembling. I would beg and grieve and he would allow that I deserved another chance. -- Katherine Dunn
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
Learning how to balance the needs of individuals with the no-less-real needs of an institution was an important lesson. It's fine to be on the side of the little guy, but he too will ultimately suffer if the health and concerns of the greater body he belongs to are neglected. -- Sonia Sotomayor
... inventions and purely human institutions. -- Jean Meslier
People make institutions, not vice versa. -- Shere Hite
Home is the grandest of all institutions. -- Charles Spurgeon
Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers. -- John Henrik Clarke
Trust has shifted from institutions to individuals. -- Clara Shih
People in great institutions are occasionally credulous. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions. -- Barack Obama
Home is the seminary of all other institutions. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, -- John Rawls
Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood. -- John Taylor Gatto
Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions. -- George Bernard Shaw
Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions. -- Slobodan MiloseviÄ?
Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes. -- Henry George
A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible. -- Bertrand Russell
The database hugging in public institutions is hampering innovation. -- Hans Rosling
We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies. -- E. O. Wilson
Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals. -- Derek Bok
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions. -- Jean Monnet
Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation. -- Vladimir Lenin
A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character. -- Herbert Spencer
Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. -- Bertrand Russell
There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions. -- H. L. Mencken
I'm a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me. -- Paul Haggis
I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions. -- Warren Buffett
MoMA is one of the world's most admired cultural institutions. -- Martin Winterkorn
People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves. -- Jeffrey Tucker
Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions. -- H. Rap Brown
Financial institutions make us nervous when they're trying to do well. -- Charlie Munger
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. -- Berthold Auerbach
Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions -- Hillary Clinton
To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions. -- Henry David Thoreau
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions. -- Clarence Darrow
France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions. -- Jacques Chirac
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. -- William O. Douglas
Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience. -- Elbert Hubbard
I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general. -- George Meyer
People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions. -- John Henrik Clarke
I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions. -- Michael K. Powell

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