"The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society."

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Source : "The Politics of Appeasement — Again and Again??" by Jane Wells, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2005.

Paddy Ashdown

#Institutions Quotes #Civil Society Quotes

“Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.”
“When I wake you're never there, but when I sleep you're everywhere.”

Source : Song: Everywhere
“If you think about even very common examples like, say, something that you would build, like a clock or a car or a group of people trying to accomplish something, it fails when its unity breaks down. So when it stops having a single form, which is functioning all together, then it sort of falls apart into discrete elements.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“I wouldn't change my past for anything, because I think it's made me who I am. I'm so enormously grateful for all that I have in my life.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production. The only simple property system is that of a slave society with a single slave owner - which, significantly, is the limiting case of despotism and of monopoly. Departure from such a system is a fair measure of human progress.”

Source : Henry Calvert Simons (1948). “Economic Policy for a Free Society”
“I'm very down-to-earth and approachable, and I can be one of the guys and watch sports... I like to cook - I'm like the girl next door.”
“A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.”
“You give up your dream, you give up.”

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