#institution

What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction. ↗

— Dee Hock

#become #clarity #code #common #common way

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#end #institutions #just #like #may

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#civil liberty #employment #exclusive #guaranteed #his

My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#change #day #deliver #field #global

It's more than a game. It's an institution. ↗

— Thomas Hughes

#institution #more #than

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#desires #destroy #destruction #ends #entrusts

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#i #institution #know #only #rock

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents. ↗

— Kenneth Joseph Arrow

#college #education #excellent #existence #financial

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#before #bosnia #closing #could #create

When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#ask #because #been #going #i