Institutional Structure Quotes

We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

Anytime you get an idea, you need people to help you put it together. That is the beginning of an institution. When you create an institution, levels of authority and boundaries need to be established. If everybody owns it, nobody owns it. If everybody is responsible for it, nobody will be responsible.

What I have done is to show the importance for the working of the economic system of what may be termed the institutional structure of production.

To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it shall be under private and not a public direction-under the guidance of individual interest, not of public policy; which, would be . . . liable to being too much influenced by public necessity.

. . . it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One is to construct an ideal goal, so that incremental changes can be judged by whether they move the institutional structure toward or away from that ideal. The other reason is very different. It is so that if a crisis requiring or facilitating radical change does arise, alternatives will be available that have been carefully developed and fully explored.

The E.U., its institutions, structure and ways of working are an anachronism.

I have often said that we have two UNs; the UN that is a Secretariat, that implements the mandates handed over to it by the General Assembly and the Security Council, and the UN that is the member states who sit in the Council, take the decisions, hand over the mandates, or take decisions in the General Assembly.

The best tech companies are led by founders with entrepreneurial zeal and strong egos. They consistently deliver what we want and what we need, at prices that decrease over time. The Wall Street firm is a long-standing institution with a more established hierarchy.

To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure that it shall be under a private direction—under the guidance of individual interest, not of public policy.

It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international capitalism, unless it is the nation state.

Ideas appropriate to a past social order have a strange power of influencing thought and action within a later institutional framework.

One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us free.

I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.