#institutions

Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master. ↗

— Walter Rauschenbusch

#bounds #denies #extent #faith #institutions

So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#basis #challenge #create #development #fairness

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#does #each #existing #find #him

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#collapse #institutions #layout #only #perfection

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#accepting #chooses #egoism #exist #far

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#about #affected #another #century #conventions

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#believe #ceremonies #estimate #flourish #free

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#banking #believe #dangerous #i #i believe

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#arises #church #dead #institutions #machinery

I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it. ↗

— Clare Short

#blair #breaking #breaking up #environment #ever