“On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern art appears fragmented and sectarian, defined as much by manifestos as imaginative work.” ArtWholeSeemsOrderSocialTermUnitedGroupsModernInstitutionsPropertySurfaceDefinedArtisticRejectionConventionsContrastIsolatedRepresentativesImaginativeExclusiveProgrammesAvant GardeModern ArtFragmentedAntagonismManifestosSocial Institutions Author:C. D. Innes
“Behind the abstraction known as 'the markets' lurks a set of institutions designed to maximize the wealth and power of the most privileged group of people in the world, the creditor-rentier class of the First World and their junior partners in the Third.” PeopleWorldFirstsWealthBehindsKnownClassGroupsCapitalismThirdsInstitutionsPartnersPrivilegedAbstractionJuniorsCreditors Author:Doug Henwood
“Therefore those governing the State ought primarily to devote themselves to the service of individual groups and of the whole commonwealth, and through the entire scheme of laws and institutions to cause both public and individual well-being to develop spontaneously out of the very structure and administration of the state.” WellsStatesWholeWisdomLawPoliticsIndividualCausesEconomyGroupsOughtInstitutionsStructureAdministrationWell BeingLiberalismSchemesGoverningCommonwealth Book:On the Condition of Workers Source: On the Condition of Workers
“In every instance when my administration sees a responsibility to help people, we will look first to faith-based institutions, to charities and to community groups that have shown their ability to save and change lives.” PeopleFirstsLooksHelpingHumorPoliticalCommunityAbilityResponsibilityGroupsInstitutionsCharityInstanceAdministrationLife ChangingPolitical HumorFaith Based Author:George W. Bush
“Conservatives . . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass, those who have tempted the courts to political judging will have gained nothing for themselves but will have destroyed a great and essential institution. . . . There are only two sides. Either the Constitution and statutes are law, which means their principles are known and control judges, or they are malleable texts that judges may rewrite to see that particular groups or political causes win.” ShouldMayMeanTwoLawPoliticalGamesWinningCausesSidesViewsKnownPrinciplesGroupsParticularJudgingEssentialsConstitutionInstitutionsCourtConservativeDestroyedActivistTemptedTwo SidesStatutes Author:Robert Bork
“I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's becausemany American politicians have the race issue to fall back on. They become lazy, suspicious of innovative ideas, and as a result American institutions atrophy.” IdeasAmericaFallPoliticsResultsRaceIssuesGroupsPoliticianInstitutionsLazyInnovativeSuspiciousBrighterFall BackAtrophyInnovative IdeasRace Issues Book:God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays Source: God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays
“Powerful groups with anti-Christian worldviews dominate major media and major educational institutions.” ChristianReligiousPowerfulGroupsMediaMajorsInstitutionsEducationalWorldviewAnti ChristianEducational InstitutionsChristian Worldview Author:Marvin Olasky
“The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group, have long underperformed the unsophisticated index-fund investor who simply sits tight for decades. A major reason has been fees: Many institutions pay substantial sums to consultants who, in turn, recommend high-fee managers. And that is a fool's game.” LittlesLongHas BeensReasonGuyTurnsGamesSinPayGroupsHugeFoolMajorsInstitutionsInvestmentInvestingDecadesManagersFundInvestorsFeesConsultantsIndex Funds Author:Warren Buffett
“[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.” HumansHeartLittlesSelfPoliticalValuesGoalInterestGroupsStudentsAdultsAnd LoveInstitutionsUniversityNeighborHatedHypocrisyProtestBureaucracySelf InterestMaterialisticMilitantRigidityHuman ValuesPolitical InstitutionsUniversity StudentsImpersonality Author:Muriel Beadle
“I'm not sure that it's right to view this as excluding a particular group. When the institution of marriage developed historically, people didn't get around and say, 'Let's have this institution, but let's keep out homosexuals.' The institution developed to serve purposes that, by their nature, didn't include homosexual couples.” PeoplePurposeViewsGroupsParticularCoupleGayInstitutionsNot SureHomosexualGay Marriage Author:John Roberts
“In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.” PeopleFeelingsGovernmentAmericaPoliticalPurposeCommunityCommonGroupsDutyInstitutionsCommon SensePolitical Institutions Author:Daniel J. Boorstin
“I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to one part poet from Marrakech, but in spite of the fact that I myself had been trained to be one of the solid workers, which meant that all of my sympathies lay with that group, I would not surrender the poet. The problem was to find him.” FactsProblemWould BeCreativeGroupsPoetInstitutionsLaysWorkersSurrenderNineSpiteMy SympathyMitMarrakech Author:James A. Michener
“By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful conservative groups themselves - will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence.” AbleAmericaPowerfulGroupsInfluenceMilitaryIncreaseInstitutionsConservativeCorporateOrganizedBiasScrutinyAccusationOrganized ReligionCorporate America Author:Eric Alterman
“Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.” ProblemHomeNumbersGrowing UpGrowingTroubleGroupsMonthsInstitutionsHospitalsLockedLocked UpPsychiatricPsychiatric Hospitals Author:Gbenga Akinnagbe