Quotes About Instituions

#1. If economics were only about profit maximization, it would be just another name for business administration. It is a social discipline, and society has other means of cost accounting besides market prices.

Dani Rodrik

#2. The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on
because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

Noam Chomsky

#3. I am at just that interesting age where i cannot keep out of things. I, too, must be in the know; I, too, must quote and sigh and nod wisely.

Dorothy Parker

#4. I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

Hunter S. Thompson

#5. What right have such men to represent Christianity - as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?

George Eliot

#6. There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed.

George Burns

#7. The thing that is really hard about adaptation is that I try to only pick things I love because if it is something where you think, "Oh, that sounds like an interesting idea but I don't love it," then I can't do my job well.

Andy Weir

#8. Take it from the former pastor: The true believers are the ones who'll burn you the worst.

Brad Meltzer

#9. Thanks for turning off the lights... and so far... it's your problem, you are getting in trouble... it's not me... so far you can keep the lights on.

Deyth Banger

#10. Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are - bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.

Barbara Mertz