Powerful Institution Quotes

#1. Business is the most powerful institution on earth today. It is more powerful than politics. Business serves us very well in some ways, but it doesn't serve us as fully as it should; it doesn't serve us fully as people.

Michael Rennie

#2. Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

Anita Roddick

#3. The Democratic Party is the - was the largest and most powerful institution supporting slavery in the English-speaking world. And it is the only one that has survived to the 21st century!

Sean Hannity

#4. The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

Philip Berrigan

#5. How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man feels at least once a day, establish that as a sin, and set yourself up as the only institution capable of pardoning that sin.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#6. The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The less powerful, the less transparent.

George Scialabba

#7. Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

Dave Barry

#8. It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

Rick Perlstein

#9. The fact that any person or institution, however well respected, praises or adopts something never constitutes proof of anything. It might merely illustrate that even well-educated people or powerful institutions can sometimes commit the silliest and most obvious of mistakes.

Edzard Ernst

#10. At times, it makes me want to stop and stay. Stay for ever.

Markus Zusak

#11. What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it's in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.

Bill Drayton

#12. There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

Iain Duncan Smith

#13. With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.

Rachelle Lefevre

#14. Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.

Peter Reading

#15. I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.

Cole Vosbury

#16. Filmmakers, they tell me they want to make movies. I say, 'Good, go out, buy a $500 camera, get some friends and make a movie. Don't go to Hollywood. Stay wherever you are.'

Alan Arkin

#17. Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.

Barry Hughart