I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.
There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.
Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.
My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.
Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.
By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.
A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.
I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.
I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.
I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.
We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.
Artists who take on curatorial activities have the advantage of negating the professional hurdles and limitations comprising institutions.
My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India.
Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
Traditional nursing facilities are sterile institutions rather than homes - which is why many Americans do not want to live in one or want this as their only option for themselves or their family members.
There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions.
