(434 quotes found)
“With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.”
Doris Lessing
“Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.”
C. Northcote Parkinson
“The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted”
W. R. Inge
“Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
Charles Darwin
“We believe that according the name "investors" to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a "romantic”
Warren Buffett
“Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader”
John Dryden
“Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.”
Chester A. Arthur
“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.”
Warren G. Bennis
“On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions”
Daniel Webster
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