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The psychopath [or sociopath] makes a mockery not only of the truth but also of all authority and institutions. - Arnold Buss, M.D." Psychopathology
— Jack Olsen
Institutions and cultures are not immortal. Humans, Christian and non-Christian, are. Compared to us, our country is a gnat.
— Matt Chandler
History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
— Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges
Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals.
— Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society's institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions.
— Michael Connelly
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
— Margaret Mead
Societies are not trapped by their pasts and freely borrow ideas and institutions from each other.
— Francis Fukuyama
The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.
— William Tyndale
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
— Alex Berenson
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
— Thomas Jefferson
Young citizens by the use of our institutions; our better acquaintance with
— Benjamin Franklin
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
— Gene Robinson
The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.
— Blaise Pascal
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.
— Karl Marx
Inventions and purely human institutions.
— Jean Meslier
Trust has shifted from institutions to individuals.
— Clara Shih
The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.
— Lee R. Raymond
Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.
— Clay Shirky
There are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Institutions train men to be skilled;
the wilderness trains men to become great. — Matshona Dhliwayo
the wilderness trains men to become great. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.
— Ram Dass
We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.
— Amory Lovins
There is more than one way to measure profits and losses. On every level, institutions can and should have a heart.
— Randy Pausch
Non-bank financial institutions provide credit that is essential to U.S. businesses and consumers.
— Henry Paulson
It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy.
— Fernando Henrique Cardoso
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.
— Edward Everett
The institution of marriage is obsolete
— Jane Fonda
Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him.
— Mao Zedong
A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.
— Jerome K. Jerome
It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.
— Elizabeth Warren
Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct.
— Boris Sidis
The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.
— John Rawls
When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
— William Greider
When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with your own ideas and your own project.
— Martin Villeneuve
Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.
— Hazel Henderson
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
— Angela Davis
People make institutions, not vice versa.
— Shere Hite
You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art
— Raja Ravi Varma
Any two public institutions appealing to the same set of people are apt to appeal in the same terms.
— Walter Millis
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Of the monastic institutions on which it depended. Since celibate monks tended to
— Stephen Batchelor
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
— William Godwin
Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.
— Swami Vivekananda
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world ... It's got everything you want, really.
— David Attenborough
Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
— Bertrand Russell
Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.
— Marianne Williamson
The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
— Clarence Darrow
Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.
— Terence McKenna
We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.
— Mahmoud Abbas
Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.
— Chester A. Arthur
Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.
— Louis O. Kelso
To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.
— Evgeny Morozov
Our very existence in that distant time requires that we will have changed our institutions and ourselves.
— Carl Sagan
Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes.
— Joan D. Chittister
There exists no more democratic institution than the market
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
— Noam Chomsky
I've seen more institutions damaged by too much caution than by rashness, though I've seen both.
— Peter F. Drucker
Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.
— Mary Douglas
My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it ... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes.
— DMX
There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .
— Peter Drucker
The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.
— Joel Bakan
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
— Cecil B. DeMille
The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.
— Mo Ibrahim
Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.
— Swami Vivekananda
all major German crimes took place in areas where state institutions had been destroyed, dismantled, or seriously compromised.
— Timothy Snyder
can we imagine political institutions that might regulate today's global patrimonial capitalism justly as well as efficiently?
— Thomas Piketty
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
— Henry David Thoreau
Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.
— Herman Melville
The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.
— Dorothea Brande
Yet if states were destroyed, local institutions corrupted, and economic incentives directed towards murder, few of us would behave well.
— Timothy Snyder
We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.
— Harold Innis
The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.
— James Madison
The days of discriminating against religious institutions simply because they are religious must come to an end.
— George W. Bush
An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.
— Shere Hite
Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
— Roger Scruton