Quotes of: International-institutions Keyword

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

Annie Leibovitz

The State is not the hope of the world; it is an institution grounded in the threat of violence, whether via capital punishments or petty bureaucratic intrusions.

Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

The Adventure of the Six Napoleons/The Adventure of the Crooked Man

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacred Name by their whole lives.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there. Page 188

My Beloved World

An institution is right or it is wrong. One that cannot accept dinosaur bones is one that cannot be trusted on more important matters.

Triggered: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

What this letter does is bring us into an atmosphere in which the institution could only wilt and die. The Letter to Philemon

Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free

Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting the proper class to rule.

What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

The best education we can ever receive is from the University of Adversity. It's the only institute of learning that rewards us when we fail.

A Walk with Prudence

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

Why We Can't Wait

All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

Gary Johnson

I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.

Tony Abbott

Resveratrol is fascinating stuff. One of the best sources of information about it is the Immortality Institute. They have a forum where some people are in the 500 Club, as they call it. They've been taking 500 milligrams for years. It's a really grea...

Timothy Ferriss

Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.

Gregg Easterbrook

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Norman Mailer

The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.

Paul Hawken

A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.

P. J. O'Rourke