Douglass North Quotes

Institutions are the humanly devised constraints that structure political, economic, and social interactions. They consist of both informal constraints (sanctions, taboos, customs, tradition, and code of conduct) and formal rules (constitutions, laws, property rights).

Douglass North

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• You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Good
  • Why
  • Creativity

• The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Society
  • Make
  • Blush

• Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Music
  • Know
  • Jazz

• I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Up
  • Book
  • Mother

• If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Money
  • You
  • Looking

• I am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God.

  

  Sai Baba
  • God
  • Creation
  • Lives

• From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Time
  • Always
  • Neck

• I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Work
  • House
  • Never

• Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Good
  • High
  • Me

• I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Character
  • Man
  • Look

• I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Words
  • Stop

• The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Money
  • Age
  • Society

• I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Me
  • Conscious

• Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Life
  • Poverty

• This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Family
  • Religion
  • Rich

• I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Love
  • Woman
  • For Her

• I think long-term, Bitcoin is a currency of the Internet. So, even if humans don't use it, routers will use it. Web browsers will use it. Web servers will use it.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Long
  • Think
  • Internet

• If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • May
  • Effort
  • Name

• Cities around the United States do not have land use planning like we have in Oregon, and they are all struggling with issues like affordable housing.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Planning
  • Land
  • Housing

• In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Community
  • Place
  • Individual

• Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

  

  Nachman of Breslov

• People who do not know what government is are not likely to know what democracy is either, for democracy is only what the soft inside of the oyster looks like.

  

  Elmer Eric Schattschneider
  • People
  • Government
  • Democracy

• Institutions are the humanly devised constraints that structure political, economic, and social interactions. They consist of both informal constraints (sanctions, taboos, customs, tradition, and code of conduct) and formal rules (constitutions, laws, property rights).

  

  Douglass North
  • Political