Quotes of: International-institutions Keyword

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

Lester B. Pearson

Ukraine has been a strong partner to the United States on international initiatives and a committed ally in fighting the War on Terrorism.

Vito Fossella

Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?' 'Faffing about, most likely', said Will.

Clockwork Prince

The military is only as strong as the other institutions supporting it.

A General Speaks Out: The Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash.

Steven Johnson

Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existin...

Ivan Krastev

We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.

Jerry Saltz

The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.

Lloyd Kaufman

The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.

Marc Davis

Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as well. It may seem ironic from one perspective, but I think if you look at my overall strategy, it's actually not out of ste...

Shepard Fairey

Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.

The Idea Of Justice

There is no inconsistency when God raises up those who have fallen prostrate.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

Steal This Book

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

The Meaning of Sarkozy

The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

Self-Reliance

Sadie was full of crap at the best of times, and in an institution where laxatives were traded like cigarettes in jail, that was really saying something.

Say Her Name

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry