“If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.” IfsHumansDoeProduceIgnoranceInstitutionsVulnerableSquares Author:Charlie Pierce
“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.” WayBelieveActionChoicesI BelieveTechnologySupportEnvironmentStyleProduceDependsIndependentInstitutionsLifestyleIdeologyDevelopingRelatedStationsPollutionConsumptionConsumerismSpontaneousDesirableMaintainingOverconsumptionOur ChoicesBe Spontaneous Author:Ivan Illich
“Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.” ImportantSocialProcessDecisionProduceMajorsFunctionInstitutionsMereBackgroundsDecision MakingMinorsSupplementsImportant DecisionsDecision Making ProcessSocial Capital Book:Knowledge And Decisions Source: Knowledge And Decisions
“It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.” WellsMayEvilInterestPrinciplesWatchesVirtueSocietyProduceIntegrityAimInstitutionsCorruptionTendenciesAgentsAgencyProductiveGoverning Author:James F. Cooper
“Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.” MomentsGenerationsInfluenceMankindProduceInstitutionsConvictionEnthusiasmEverlastingAbidingEloquenceBegets Author:James Russell Lowell
“The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.” HumansSocialProduceMaterialsInstitutionsHuman SocietyRaw MaterialsCaricaturesSocial InstitutionsRecalcitrant Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
“We also have to match the skills with the needs of the economy... I think we are losing the plot because we are continuing to produce the people that are not going to be the drivers of industrialisation. So that needs the discipline of both training institutions and policies that drive our people to industrialisation.” PeopleThinkingNeedsEconomyPolicyProduceDisciplineSkillsLosingTrainingInstitutionsPlotDriversContinuing Author:Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
“It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.” CertainIndividualNationsWealthProduceSourceTaxesResourcesIncreaseInstitutionsPropertyRichesContraryRuinsGoodsDespotismPreventingDepriving Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas, on the other hand, bad institutions render men cowardly, rapacious, and slaves of every foul desire.” MenHas BeensHandsGovernmentFormDesireJusticeQualityProduceCitizensBraveryInstitutionsSlaveDistinguishedFoulCowardlyForms Of GovernmentGood Quality Author:Dionysius of Halicarnassus
“As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the prince, which temporarily supply the want of religion.” WantCountryCausesGreatnessProduceDivineInstitutionsRuinsRepublicDisregardObservance Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“It isn't given to man to be able to run a financial institution where different interest-rate scenarios will prevail on all of that so as to produce kind of smooth, regular earnings from a very large base to start with.” MenKindDifferentRunningAbleGivenInterestProduceInstitutionsRateFinancialSmoothEarningScenariosInterest RateFinancial Institutions Author:Warren Buffett