Quotes About Institutional Power

#1. The beauty myth is not about women at all. It is about men's institutions and institutional power.

Naomi Wolf

#2. In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

Gary Hamel

#3. The defense of the great works of Western literature can no longer be undertaken by central institutional power though it is hard to see how the normal operation of learned institutions, including recruitment can manage without them.

Harold Bloom

#4. Nestor is the spokesman for the status quo, for the tradition-hallowed belief that institutional power equates with unquestioned authority.

Caroline Alexander

#5. Chang despised authority on principle, for even when veiled by the rubric of practical necessity or the weight of tradition he could not see institutional power as anything but an expression of arbitrary personal will, and it galled him profoundly.

Gordon Dahlquist

#6. Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley

Alex Garland

#7. Can a non-Western power really hope to benefit from downloading Western scientific knowledge, if it continues to reject that other key part of the West's winning formula: the third institutional innovation of private property rights, the rule of law and truly representative government?

Niall Ferguson

#8. No one can be truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major institutions, for it is over these institutional means of power that the truly powerful are, in the first instance, truly powerful ...

C. Wright Mills

#9. Institutional neglect of racism and injustice is the exercise of power, the kind of power that refuses to notice and refuses to speak.

Jeff Chang

#10. The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged as a born-again 19th-century power determined to challenge the intellectual, moral and institutional foundations of the order.

Ivan Krastev

#11. Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are well educated you have already been socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely.

Noam Chomsky

#12. If you're unloved then find out and destroy all the barriers that you have created against love.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Some people - like a festering finger or a leg shattered beyond repair - just needed to be removed.

Brandon Sanderson

#14. I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.

Angela Davis

#15. As countries get wealthier - all of them, together - you're going to have financial assets. That is a good thing. You could argue the assets were traded too much, or that they're too highly valued, or too leveraged.

Jamie Dimon

#16. The man who guides himself only by natural light does not comprehend the things of the Spirit of God.

St. Louis De Montfort

#17. We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties.

Alan Keyes

#18. I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars.

Rick Larsen

#19. {252}By robbing Peter he paid Paul,... and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.

Various

#20. The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.

Elliott Colla