Quotes of: International-institutions Keyword

I have an excellent internal compass.

Hugh Bonneville

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

John W. Gardner

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

Tatyana Ali

It's more than a game. It's an institution.

Thomas Hughes

Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy.

Mo Ibrahim

Societies are not sustainable without institutions.

Mo Ibrahim

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

Russell Means

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Lee Iacocca

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

Charles Stanley

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Maximilien Robespierre

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

Jacques Chirac

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

Kenneth G. Wilson

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

Ivan Krastev

In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing megachurches, Christian yellow-page businesses, or womb-to-tomb Ch...

The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

The main cause of the ineffectiveness of British propaganda is that those directing it seem to have lost their own belief in the peculiar values of English civilization or to be completely ignorant of the main points on which it differs from that of ...

The Road to Serfdom

…it is the public sector I find more interesting, because governments and other non-market institutions have long suffered from the innovation malaise of top-heavy bureaucracies. Today, these institutions have an opportunity to fundamentally alter ...

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the ...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest could have a privilege to advance like himself. The relationship we have with God places us in a situation t...

Joseph Smith Jr.

There's a simplicity and a sense of adventure to being alone, and I sometimes envy you for having it, as you explore Paris. Even when you're getting your heart broken, you can still wake up and not know what's going to happen next.

Graduates in Wonderland: The International Misadventures of Two (Almost) Adults

Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth other than as colorful, variegated, and exciting, and so, it cannot reduce life, with all its pain, horror, suffering, and ecstasy,...

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry