Institutions Quotes
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Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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I think unity is a mistake.... If I were the Establishment and had the big loaded guns of the various oppressive institutions....I would much prefer to see one lion come through the door than 500 mice.
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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
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Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.
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Science is international but its success is based on institutions, which are owned by nations. If therefore, we wish to promote culture we have to combine and to organize institutions with our own power and means.
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People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
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Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
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The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.
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The prestige of the international financial institutions rates less than zero.
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I think that the candidates who are doing it [not debating] are doing a great disservice to the party. It`s a sign of an unhealthy institution.
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When a republic's most venerable institutions no longer operate as they were intended, it becomes possible for small cabals to usurp power, and, while keeping the forms, corrupt the function of those institutions for their own ends. Looking at things that way, the George W. Bush presidency has been both result and symptom of the decadence of America's constitutional mechanisms.
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I have always tried to do everything that's been in my power to defend and sustain our institutions. I have demonstrated in my public life that I loyally serve my country and that I love freedom. It has been my sole purpose to propose what I think best for your highest interests, which are to strengthen peace in the future and strengthen our institutions.
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I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.
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All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.
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I have great, great confidence in our capital markets and in our financial institutions. Our financial institutions, banks and investment banks, are strong. Our capital markets are resilient. They're efficient. They're flexible.
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It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth.
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In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.
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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.
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After a very busy three weeks spent in the City, I now have a much better understanding how all the different financial institutions work and how they fit together.
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We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.
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In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies.
