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“I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle which will enable us to be spontaneous, independent, yet related to each other, rather than maintaining a lifestyle which only allows to make and unmake, produce and consume - a style of life which is merely a way station on the road to the depletion and pollution of the environment. The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.”

“Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement ... Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of the republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of youth; in both these instances our fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory.”

“The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.”

Justice Possibility Depends Claims Institutions Reform Obedience Formal

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.”

Men States Character Form Individual Nations Conditions Depends Civilization Prove Institutions Improvement Personal Improvement

Book:Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance

Source: Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance

“Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.”

Humans Self Existence Depends Institutions Instinct Impulse Stability Associates Preservation Self Preservation

Author:Boris Sidis

“No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.”

Ifs Men May Country States Particular Depends Institutions Great Men

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.”

Action Choices Technology Support Depends Institutions Ideology Developing Consumerism Spontaneous Overconsumption Our Choices

Author:Ivan Illich

“This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival.”

“If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved and the events that went into their creation. A nation's sense of its history is indistinguishable from its social cohesion.”

Ifs Country Political Nations Social Democracy Events Creation Depends Institutions Voters Cohesion Political Institutions

Author:Alan Bullock

“A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of awareness, both individually and collectively... As long as our thinking is governed by industrial, "machine age" metaphors such as control, predicatbility, and "faster is better", we will continue to re-create institutions as we have, despite their increasing disharmony with the larger world.”

Thinking World Long Age Social Levels Awareness Depends Machines Institutions Metaphor Despite Faster Social Systems Disharmony

Author:Betty Sue Flowers

“If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.”

People Ifs Humans I Can Important Human Beings Imagine Depends Asking Institutions Cups Respectful Competitiveness

Author:Tom Peters

“If somehow every volunteer vanished tomorrow, so much of this country would come to a standstill: schools, hospitals and libraries. You can't name an institution that doesn't depend on volunteers.”

Ifs Country School Names Depends Tomorrow Institutions Library Hospitals Volunteer Standstill

Author:Al Roker

“The efficiency of a President at the beginning of his term depends on their capacity to get everything under control. That was my case. But once the institutions have been put in place, and the responsibilities delegated, the leader becomes a reference, a referee, a symbol and unifying figure for the nation. The issue is how and when to recognize the moment when staying in power becomes counterproductive.”

Has Beens Moments Nations President Term Responsibility Leader Cases Issues Figures Depends Capacity Institutions Symbols Staying Efficiency Referee Unifying Counterproductive

Author:Paul Kagame

“[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public.”

Wells Reason Past Decision Cases Depends Tough Institutions Court Proven Tough Decisions Making Tough Decisions

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. They have no special devices, material, or institutions for teaching save in connection with initiation ceremonies by which the youth are inducted into full social membership. For the most part, they depend upon children learning the customs of the adults, acquiring their emotional set and stock of ideas, by sharing in what the elders are doing.”

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“If [Bashar] Assad himself could save this whole process by saying, "I will engage in a managed transition where we all work together to stabilize the government, save the institutions of government, and turn on ISIL and preserve Syria." That could happen. It all depends on one man, and Russia and Iran should not be so stubborn here that they tie this whole thing up simply because of one person.”

Ifs Men Should Persons Whole Government Happens Together Turns Process Depends Institutions Russia Preserves Ties Working Together Iran One Man Transition Syria Stubborn Turn-on Assad Isil

Author:John F. Kerry

“Then another thing, now this is mainly for our interest about Tibet, our struggle. Whole struggle depend on within person. For dangerous. Foolish! Not for this only institution or even not only for Buddhist dogma, but before national sort of right, our right. So therefore this struggle must carried by people themselves.”

People Persons Whole Interest Struggle Dangerous Depends Institutions Foolish Buddhist Dogma Tibet

Author:Dalai Lama

“We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.”

Want May Mean Reality Depends Deserve Institutions Merit Sat Score Concrete Tempted Entry Sat Scores

Author:Eric Liu

“Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.”

Men Giving Government Poor Poverty Economic Depends Determination Institutions Democratic Employment Our Future Idle Unemployment Soundness

Book:Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944

Source: Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944