Top 362 Institutional Quotes & Sayings

The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types.

Institutional blindness is a major threat to the future of all corporations.

There is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.

I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals.

I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.

One of the things about working for an old school studio like Warner Bros. is that there is an institutional culture and institutional memory, in terms of production design, camera work, and directors who understand how to do this kind of thing.

Institutional practices, it seems, perpetuate themselves mostly by their invisibility.

Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.

Western societies in general and universities in particular have not always been immune from institutional sexism. This is incontestable.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.

It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the 1960s and 70s and pretend that something really big didn't change then. It did change. There really was a significant institutional decline.

I want attractive stocks that will benefit from persistent institutional buying pressure.

It is time to raze the institutional foundations of racism and segregation within politics, law enforcement and society at large.

At the most basic level, if men have institutional power, they have tremendous influence to change those institutions.

Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.

Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate.

Every time there's an institutional issue like impeachment, there's concern from the outside about what will happen.

We should therefore be opposed to institutional barriers to that freedom: Military dictatorships, for example. Or states run by a Central Committee.

Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.

The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.

Do not enter into an agreement you cannot afford. Take precautions to avoid institutional loans with double-digit interest rates.

It is easier to disrupt consumer finance. It is much harder to disrupt institutional finance, Wall Street. It is very heavily regulated, and because it is institutional finance, you are dealing with incumbents.

The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990.

I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.

Does management resist the institutional imperative?

We have an institutional problem with pervasive racism.

Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.

Prejudice is not just a personal sentiment - it can be institutional too.

Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

I think that a good portion of the 'Institutional Left' hates the building blocks of America.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

The most anyone could reasonably say about institutional racism is that the 'evidence is far from conclusive.

Avoid contradiction. Clear institutional identity helps give you the competitive edge.

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.

Genre/forms are institutional questions mainly. Like matter to MFA programs in terms of which workshop you can teach.

Suppose that we believe what we are taught. . . . destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies . . . of institutional lunacy.

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions. But there is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.

The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock.

Differences in racial outcomes are not the same thing as institutional racism any more than the fact that far more men than women are locked up is evidence of institutional sexism.

I'm grateful that I've enjoyed the support of libraries, bookshops and institutional funders.

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

The permanent institutional expertise class is now no longer the legislators, it's the lobbyists who don't have term limits and are there forever.

I've always been in institutional theater.

What I have done is to show the importance for the working of the economic system of what may be termed the institutional structure of production.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

The institutional leader is primarily an expert in the promotion and protection of values.

I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.

The lack of societal and institutional safeguards provides fertile ground for populist movements fueled by fear.

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

I see a violation of human rights not in the mere fact that people don't have enough to eat and that they are very vulnerable, but I see it in the fact that the economic institutional order of the world is associated with this very persistent poverty and that different institutional arrangements at the supranational level could stop and even reverse the slide towards ever-greater income disparities.

Women fail, very simply, if they have no guidance and friendships in art, if they are not perceived as, or permitted to be, artists, and if they have no institutional access.

If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational.

We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.