Institutions Quotes
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I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.
Terence McKenna
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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
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Artists who take on curatorial activities have the advantage of negating the professional hurdles and limitations comprising institutions.
Michelle Grabner
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The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
Thomas Sowell
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It's not that you have jobs on the Internet, but the Internet makes it possible for more people to build their own jobs. What it does is, it erodes the power of institutions. It used to be you needed an institution to have a job. But, if you look at the three of us on this show, I don't think any of us is really employed by an institution. We run our own lives.
Esther Dyson
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No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.
Hugo Black
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I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.
Steve Alford
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I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.
Richard Pryor
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I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.
Tony Abbott
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We have to be able track the ways in which fear, for instance, is monopolized by state and media institutions, ways in which fear is actually promoted and distributed as a way of bolstering the need for greater security and militarization.
Judith Butler
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The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.
Eugene V. Debs
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Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
Miguel de Unamuno
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When I say, 'I am supporting the police or the army,' I am talking about the army in general and the police in general. In general, those institutions are good institutions.
Mohammed Morsi
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A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
Herbert Spencer
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Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.
Rowan Williams
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One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.
Harry S Truman
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I'm very optimistic, but I'm optimistic about individuals, not institutions.
Heather Brooke
