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U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here.
God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.
Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution.
What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?
Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.
Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.
The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment
The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.
The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone. Security also lies in the value of our free institutions.
Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.
Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.
Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions.
One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.
A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.
An institution has to decide, and it's not just an option, it's a responsibility, how much diversity can be tolerated.
Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air conditioning and have good shows.
Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.
Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.
Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him.
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time.
I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.
The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art.
We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.
Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.
I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution; it's one of the most important institutions we have.
The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.
If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.
Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.
Listen your Lordship, I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris, I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish, but I didn't inhale.
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.
Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.
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.