Institutions Quotes - Page 10

The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The less powerful, the less transparent.

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

The problem with monasteries, ashrams, convents is these institutions become extremely political. In other words, they're really small societies, and much of what you hope to avoid in societies you find there.

The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend.

It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.

Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

Home is the seminary of all other institutions.

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.

One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us free.

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

When an institution goes through an inflection point, it has to institutionalise itself. That institutionalisation requires governance to be put in place, governance processes.

It's part of the institution of teshuva, if you make a mistake, you have to restore it as you can.

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.

Trust has shifted from institutions to individuals.

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.

Institutions do live on their history.

Well the Kop’s exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you’ve got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they’re united and loyal.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time.

Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.