127 Quotes About Institutions

It is not the institutions that loot but the people who wear expensive suits and grace our boardrooms and television sets to lecture the world about ethics.

Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions; religious institutions have created problems for same-sex marriage.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

When people criticize me for not having any respect for existing structures and institutions, I protest. I say I give institutions and structures and traditions all the respect that I think they deserve. That's usually mighty little, but there are things that I do respect. They have to earn that respect. They have to earn it by serving people. They don't earn it just by age or legality or tradition.

We still don't have a good word to describe what is missing in Cameroon, indeed in poor countries across the world. But we are starting to understand what it is. Some people call it 'social capital, or maybe 'trust'. Others call it 'the rule of law', or 'institutions'. But these are just labels. The problem is that Cameroon, like other poor countries, is a topsy-turvy world in which it's in most people's interest to take action that directly or indirectly damages everyone else.

It is the little platoons, rather than the great society, which command attention in this new version of the national past; the spirit of place rather than that of the common law or the institutions of representative government.

Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should.

You have to be smart .The Easy day are over.