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Letter "I" » institutions
«There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments»
Author: Joseph Anderson
| About:
History,
Nations
| Keywords:
customs, embodied, embodies, institutions, In books, monuments, recorded, strengthens
«The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
analyses, assumptions, conventional, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, evaluate, evaluated, examine, formation, formations, habitual, institutions, mould, participate, playing field, political institutions, re-examine, shake up
«Religion which is interested only in itself, in its prestige and success, in its institutions and ecclesiastical niceties, is worse than vanity; it is essentially incestuous.»
Author: S. H. Miller
| About:
Religion,
Success
| Keywords:
Bad Religion, ecclesiastical, essentially, incestuous, institutions, interested, niceties, nicety, prestige, such institutions, vanity, worse
«The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.»
Author: Warren G. Bennis
| Keywords:
desperate, entered, hitting, institutions, presided, presiding, referred, referred to, resilience, traumatic, walk of life
«Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.»
Author: Karl von Clausewitz
| Keywords:
and so, and so forth, attendant, attendants, circumstances, civilization, civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, fired, forth, For each, hatred, institutions, in short, operate, operate on, passionate, peoples, respective, ruled, savage, savaged, savagery
«This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
amended, amending, constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, exercise, existing, inhabit, inhabits, institutions, overthrow, overthrowing, overthrows, revolutionaries, revolutionary, such institutions, wearies, weariest, weary, wearying
«The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Government,
Politics
| Keywords:
development, institutions, insure, insured, insures, insuring, justifiable, political, political institutions, unhindered
«What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| Keywords:
crumble, crumbled, crumbles, crumbling, institutions, roots of, The Roots, tree trunk, trunks
«The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
institutions
«You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
assuming, begun, by and by, come on, commons, competencies, competency, flattering, gratified, House of, House of Commons, institutions, meddling, multitude, Prophecies, refined, sneered, sneering, sneers, spoil, the House of Commons, verified, verifies, verify, vulgar
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