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Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

topic: Education, Educational, Institutions, Educational Institutions

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An institution has to decide, and it's not just an option, it's a responsibility, how much diversity can be tolerated.

- Albert Mohler

topic: Responsibility, Diversity, Institutions

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.

- Alvin Toffler

topic: Struggle, Tomorrow, Institutions

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

topic: Institutions, Charitable

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

- Anatoly Chubais

topic: Long, Fundamentals, Institutions

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

- Andrew Eldritch

topic: England, Social, Institutions, Better Woman

Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.

- Andrew Jackson

topic: Benefits, Masonic, Institutions, Masonry, Freemasonry

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Use, Institutions, Valuable

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

- Arthur Henderson

topic: Partnership, Institutions, Unesco, National Sovereignty

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

- Ashley Montagu

source: "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson",

topic: Systematic, Mental Illness, Institutions, Family Unit

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

- Atal Bihari Vajpayee

source: "A World Without Leadership: Ten Questions with Ian Bremmer (Part 1)". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com. May 6, 2012.

topic: Reality, Institutions, Unesco, Bihar

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

topic: Raw Materials, Social, Institutions, Social Institutions, Recalcitrant

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

- Bashar al-Assad

topic: Mind, Reform, Institutions, Including Everyone, Opening Your Mind

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

topic: Library, United States, Institutions, Public Library, Subversive

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

- Bernie Sanders

topic: Financial, Failing, Institutions, Financial Institutions

The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.

- Bernie Sanders

topic: People, Important, Institutions, Postal Service

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

- Berthold Auerbach

topic: Abstract, Creeds, Institutions

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

topic: Mean, Human Nature, Institutions

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct.

source: "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 311), 1922.

topic: Self, Instinct, Institutions, Self Preservation

Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.

- Bruce Dickinson

topic: Iron, Quitting, Institutions, Iron Maiden

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

- C. Northcote Parkinson

source: Parkinson's Law ch. 6 (1957)

topic: Perfection, Institutions, Collapse, Layout

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

topic: Government, People, Institutions

The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.

- Charles Alexander Eastman

topic: War, Hospitality, Institutions

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

topic: Home, Improvement, Institutions

Trust has shifted from institutions to individuals.

topic: Individual, Institutions

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.

- Condoleezza Rice

topic: Transformation, Middle, Institutions

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

- Daniel Webster

topic: Education, People, Institutions, Diffusion

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

- Darrell Hammond

source: "Darrell Hammond Performed on 'SNL' Same Week He Was Taken From NBC in Straitjacket" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 26, 2011.

topic: Psych, Long, Institutions

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

topic: Running, School, Institutions

Institutions are becoming naked, and if you're going to be naked â€¦ fitness is no longer optional. If you're going to be naked, you better get buff.

topic: Becoming, Naked, Institutions

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

- Doug Stanhope

topic: Progressive, Institutions, Progressive Society

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

topic: Thinking, Trying, Institutions

But the fact that the word "chattel" has survived as the inclusive legal term for all movable goods, points, not merely to the great importance of cattle in primitive times, but to the importance of the notion of sale or barter in generating the institution of property.

source: Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

topic: Facts, Institutions, Importance

Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Why Not, Individual, Institutions

Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.

- Ellen Goodman

topic: Enough, Institutions

Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.

topic: World, Chance, Institutions, New Products

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

source: "What is a startup?". www.startuplessonslearned.com. June 21, 2010.

topic: Institutions, Extremes, Humans

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

topic: Soil, Institutions, Thrive

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

- Eugene V. Debs

topic: Prison, Should, Institutions

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

- Ferdinand de Saussure

topic: Might, Evoke, Institutions

The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.

- Frank Chodorov

source: Frank Chodorov (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.

topic: Taxation, Institutions, Foursquare

I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

- Gary L. Francione

topic: Animal, Institutions, Existence

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

- Gene Robinson

topic: Moving, Church, Institutions

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

topic: Institutions, Committed

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

- George Santayana

topic: Suffering, Institutions, Rational, Concessions

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

- Graydon Carter

topic: Honest, Financial, Institutions, Financial Institutions

Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.

- Graydon Carter

topic: Would Be, Institutions, Pursuit

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient ...

- Harriet Martineau

source: Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.120

topic: Imperfect, Institutions, Inequality, Subservient

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples

- Henri La Fontaine

topic: Country, Institutions, Democratic, Slaughterhouses, Bargaining

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

- Henry James Sumner Maine

source: Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.14, Beard Books

topic: Jurisprudence, Institutions, Humans

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

- Iain Duncan Smith

topic: Powerful, Tools, Institutions

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

topic: Government, Injustice, Institutions

The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions

topic: Government, Corruption, Institutions

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

topic: Institutions, Transparency, Mistrust

Love is just an institution...

source: Song: Holy Shit, Album: I Love You, Honeybear, 2015

topic: Love Is, Institutions

Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.

topic: People, Growing, Institutions

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

- Jacques Chirac

topic: Needs, France, Institutions

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

- Jacques Derrida

topic: Territory, Institutions, Certain

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Death, Institutions, Cases

If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

topic: Law, Land, Institutions, Traditional Marriage

Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.

topic: Earth, Want, Institutions

I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s.

- Jay Hernandez

topic: Real, Creepy, Institutions, Really Creepy

... inventions and purely human institutions.

topic: Atheism, Invention, Institutions

Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions.

source: Jean Monnet (1978). “Memoirs”

topic: Men, Institutions, Lasting

A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.

- Jerome K. Jerome

topic: Bulls, Benefits, Institutions, Spaniards

Join the crazed institution of the stars.

topic: Stars, Insanity, Institutions

Why shouldn't I milk it? We're an agricultural institution.

topic: Basketball, Milk, Institutions

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

- Joan Fontaine

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Bird, Institutions, Dodo Bird

The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

source: Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

topic: Purpose, Corporations, Institutions, Public Good, National Interests

But, you know, I'm presiding over an institution that was designed not to work.

source: "Boehner: Senate Wants No Part of Cutting Spending". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. February 6, 2012.

topic: Conservative, Institutions, Values, Conservative Values

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

topic: Church, Christianity, Institutions, Sacraments

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

- John L. Lewis

source: Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

topic: Usa, Conflict, Institutions

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

source: "A Theory of Justice". Book by John Rawls, 1971.

topic: Share, Advantage, Institutions

Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.

source: "Redefining marriage to include same-sex couples would benefit nobody" by John Sentamu, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

topic: Sex, Support, Institutions

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

- John W. Gardner

topic: Age, Hallmark, Institutions, Sluggish

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

topic: Names, Chaos, Institutions, Pandemonium

I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.

- Jose Manuel Barroso

source: "Foo Fighter Fires Back" by Nate Mendel, www.motherjones.com. October 03, 2000.

topic: Strong, Imf, Institutions

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

- Jose Saramago

topic: Imf, World, Institutions, World Bank

Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money.

- Joseph Salerno

topic: Government, Monopoly, Institutions

I have high respect for the Chief Justice and the institution he represents. But, I equally demand respect to the institution I represent.

- Juan Ponce Enrile

topic: Justice, Demand, Institutions, Chief Justice

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

- Keith Preston

topic: Democracy, Scum, Institutions

The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment

- Kingsley Martin

source: "The Crown and the Establishment". Book by Kingsley Martin, London, p. 175,

topic: Secret, Flourishing, Institutions

I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.

- Kyle Chandler

topic: Institutions

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

- Lara Flynn Boyle

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Institutions

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.

- Lee R. Raymond

source: "Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Religion & Liberty Journal Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.

topic: People, Flow, Institutions, Civics

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

- Leland Stanford

source: Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

topic: School, Law, Institutions

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

topic: Government, Institutions, Immoral

The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness.

- Leonard Sweet

source: Leonard Sweet, Frank Viola (2012). “Jesus: A Theography”, p.156, Thomas Nelson

topic: Church, Authenticity, Institutions

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finishes up.

topic: Marriage, Couple, Institutions, Sex Maniac

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

topic: Library, Doe, Institutions

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.

topic: Atrocities, Literature, Institutions, Darfur, Sudan

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

- Marianne Faithfull

topic: Men, Behaviour, Institutions

In the American colonies, the main problem of liberty has been solved, demonstrated and practiced in such a manner as not to leave much to be said by European institutions.

- Marquis de Lafayette

topic: Liberty, Problem, Institutions

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

- Marshall McLuhan

topic: People, Sanity, Institutions

Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.

- Mary Jane Ward

source: Mary Jane Ward (1969). “Counterclockwise”

topic: Citizens, Institutions, Committed, Second Rate

Viewed systematically, religion can be differentiated from other culturally constituted institutions by virtue only of its reference to superhuman beings.

- Melford Spiro

topic: Religion, Virtue, Institutions

Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.

- Michael Lee-Chin

topic: Individual, Institutions, Wealthy, Private Equity

When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution.

- Michel Martelly

topic: Haiti, Done, Institutions

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.

- Mikhail Bulgakov

topic: Educational, Institutions, Educated, Educated Person, Educational Institutions

Listen your Lordship, I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris, I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish, but I didn't inhale.

- Mordecai Richler

topic: Paris, Hashish, Institutions, Inhale, Lordship

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.

- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

source: "Kemalism, Laicism and Democracy". Book by Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, 1994.

topic: Religion, Important, Institutions, Reason And Logic

Sehwag is a miracle, Sehwag is an institution

- Navjot Singh Sidhu

topic: Miracle, Institutions

When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.

- Newt Gingrich

topic: Court, Institutions, Judicial

Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.

- Nicholas Trist

topic: Banking, Spirit, Institutions, Misdeeds

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

topic: History, Survival, Institutions, Repression

The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Christianity, Good Things, Institutions

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

- Paddy Ashdown

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

topic: Institutions, Civil Society

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

- Paddy Ashdown

topic: People, Institutions, Chips

Every institution is inherently demonic.

topic: Institutions, Demonic

Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions.

topic: Wall, Boundaries, Institutions

We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.

source: Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.92, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Learning, Institutions

What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?

- Peter Drucker

topic: Institutions, Results, Performances

The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Institutions, Equipment, Century, Knowledge Workers

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.

- Philip Yancey

topic: Church, Trying, Institutions

This post of President is a Constitutional post. It is the duty of everyone, all citizens to see that they respect the post... the institution of President.

- Pratibha Patil

topic: President, Citizens, Institutions

the importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art

- Raja Ravi Varma

source: "Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations". Book by Partha Mitter, 1994.

topic: Art, Past, Institutions

Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution.

- Robert Collyer

source: "Yesterday in the Pulpit". The New York Times, www.nytimes.com. March 6, 1882.

topic: Atheism, Institutions

There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions.

- Robert M. Gates

topic: Book, Institutions

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

- Robert M. Gates

topic: Thinking, Institutions, Wells

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

- Robert Teeter

topic: Influence, Individual, Institutions

Have you ever thought that radical ideas threaten institutions, then become institutions, and in turn reject radical ideas which threaten institutions?

topic: Ideas, Institutions, Radical, Radical Ideas

People make institutions, not vice versa.

source: Shere Hite (2011). “The Shere Hite Reader: New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalism, and Private Life”, p.411, Seven Stories Press

topic: People, Vices, Institutions

Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.

topic: Family, Institutions, Made

I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.

source: Simon Raven (1963). “Boys Will be Boys”

topic: Army, Institutions

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

- Slobodan Milosević

topic: Mean, Equality, Institutions

The more we demand that institutions allow us to be who we are, the more they're going to have to.

- Stephen Herbits

topic: Who We Are, Demand, Institutions

The world is a penal institution.

- Taylor Caldwell

topic: World, Institutions

I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with.

topic: Able, Married, Institutions, Lost Faith, Complete Me

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

- Theodore Parker

topic: Greatness, Men, Institutions

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

- Theodore Zeldin

topic: Gone, Looks, Institutions

I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.

topic: Believe, Important, Institutions

All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.

topic: Earth, Program, Institutions, Human Activity

The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist

- Ti-Grace Atkinson

source: Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”

topic: Feminist, Institutions, Anti Feminist, Man Hater, Radical Feminism

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.

topic: Penn State, Institutions, States, Higher Learning

As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters.

topic: Islamic, Target, Institutions, Headquarters

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

topic: Institutions, States, Should

The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform,

topic: Lgbt, Movement, Institutions

We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions.

topic: Mexico, Dignity, Institutions

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

topic: Individuality, Institutions, Inconsiderate, Nonconformity, Conformity And Individuality

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

- William Irwin Thompson

topic: Mistake, Culture, Institutions, National Culture

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.

- William Irwin Thompson

topic: World, Process, Institutions

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

- William Ralph Inge

topic: Way, Rivals, Institutions

The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.

- William Tyndale

topic: Church, Christianity, Institutions

You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Justice, Accepting, Institutions

It's part of the institution of teshuva, if you make a mistake, you have to restore it as you can.

- Csanad Szegedi

source: Source: www.salon.com

topic: Mistake, Institutions, Ifs

When an institution goes through an inflection point, it has to institutionalise itself. That institutionalisation requires governance to be put in place, governance processes.

- Cyrus Pallonji Mistry

source: Source: zeenews.india.com

topic: Process, Institutions, Governance

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

- Keith O'Brien

topic: Doubt, Influence, Institutions

Marriage is not an institution to be tampered with by mankind, and certainly not to be tampered with by those who are doing so simply for their own purposes.

- Lance B. Wickman

source: Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

topic: Purpose, Institutions, Mankind

Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.

- Molly Corbett Broad

topic: Speech, Academic, Institutions

The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone. Security also lies in the value of our free institutions.

- Murray Gurfein

topic: Lying, Institutions, Nations

Any two public institutions appealing to the same set of people are apt to appeal in the same terms.

- Walter Millis

topic: Two, People, Institutions

Religion is separate from the institution of the state.

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: States, Institutions

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

topic: Family, Parent, Institutions

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

- Philip Berrigan

source: Source: law-journals-books.vlex.com

topic: Powerful, Most Powerful, Institutions, Pentagon

I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

- Randall Robinson

source: Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

topic: Thinking, People, Institutions

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

source: Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

topic: Tradition, Social, Institutions, Social Institutions

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

source: Source: thenewinquiry.com

topic: Powerful, Should, Institutions, Inspection, Oversight

The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than outright extortion, a gross violation of human liberty.

- Tibor R. Machan

source: "What's Wrong with Taxation?". mises.org. November 22, 2002.

topic: Liberty, Taxation, Institutions

I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

- Lee Van Cleef

source: Source: www.fistful-of-leone.com

topic: Care, Film, Institutions, International Business

If we ignore international institutions, it will lead only to lawlessness and anarchy.

- Lisa Anderson

source: Source: www.rollingstone.com

topic: Lawlessness, Anarchy, Institutions

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

source: Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.217, Open Road Media

topic: Lovers, Institutions

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.

- Sonia Sotomayor

source: Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.188, Vintage

topic: Thinking, Action, Institutions

The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.

- Florence King

source: Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.107, Macmillan

topic: Should Have, Institutions, Brooms

But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.

source: Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.267, Harriman House Limited

topic: Violence, Silent, Institutions, Insensible

I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

source: "The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology" by Lawrence Wright, www.newyorker.com. February 14 & 21, 2011.

topic: Broken, Institutions, Persons

A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.

- Charlie Munger

topic: Casinos, Financial, Institutions, Financial Institutions

The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Defense, Institutions, Core

I think that the candidates who are doing it [not debating] are doing a great disservice to the party. It`s a sign of an unhealthy institution.

- Chris Matthews

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Party, Thinking, Institutions

I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press.

- Jeremy Scahill

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Believe, Important, Institutions

The problem with monasteries, ashrams, convents is these institutions become extremely political. In other words, they're really small societies, and much of what you hope to avoid in societies you find there.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Political, Problem, Institutions

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

- Albert Schweitzer

source: Albert Schweitzer's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. November 4, 1954.

topic: Mind, Born, Institutions

Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.

- Peter Drucker

source: Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.11, Routledge

topic: Management, Institutions

Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones.

- Peter L. Berger

source: Peter L. Berger (1973). “Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective”, Overlook Pr

topic: Individual, Institutions, Procedures

[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.

source: Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.83, Macmillan

topic: Feelings, Institutions, Committed

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

- Clarence Darrow

source: Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, University of Chicago Press

topic: Freedom, Law, Institutions

Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.

- Swami Vivekananda

topic: Marriage, Institutions, Guarded

Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2381, Manonmani Publishers

topic: Break, Institutions, Higher

Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

topic: Institutions, Accustomed

When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented and diluted as to be virtually nonexistent, and the organization becomes inherently evil.

- M. Scott Peck

source: M. Scott Peck (2010). “Further Along The Road Less Travelled”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

topic: Organization, Evil, Institutions, Fragmented

I think society is entitled to recognize marriage as an institution that involves one man and one woman.

- Phyllis Schlafly

source: Source: rutherford.org

topic: Men, Thinking, Institutions

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.23, Rajpal & Sons

topic: Democracy, Liable, Institutions

Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Religion, Atrocities, Institutions, Right Conduct

In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.79, Hackett Publishing

topic: Loyalty, Democracy, Institutions, Disloyal

The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

source: Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

topic: England, Institutions, Valuable

I've never been engaged. I definitely believe in the institution of marriage.

source: "Mandy Moore and John Krasinski Interview - LICENSE TO WED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2007.

topic: Believe, Institutions, Engaged

Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him.

topic: States, Should, Institutions

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: 1903 Don Juan. Man and Superman, act 3.

topic: Institutions, Humans

I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Thinking, Understanding, Institutions, Commonality

The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.

source: Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2015.

topic: Important, Breaking Down, Institutions

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

topic: Government, Made, Institutions

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

- Andrew Jackson

source: Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.244

topic: Talent, Wealth, Institutions, Veto

The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.

source: "The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered". Book by George Soros, 1998.

topic: Law, States, Institutions, International Law

A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Virginia, Should Have, Institutions, Professorship

No institution will be better than the institutor.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.211

topic: Institutions

I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.153

topic: Men, Thinking, Institutions

You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.444, Modern Library

topic: Institutions, Peril, Institute

Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.

- John Foster Dulles

topic: Birth, Institutions

Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.

- Thomas Sowell

topic: Action, Program, Institutions

People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions.

- John Henrik Clarke

source: Source: www.ourtimepress.com

topic: Fall, People, Institutions, Rise And Fall

Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers.

- John Henrik Clarke

source: Source: www.ourtimepress.com

topic: Boxers, Clown, Institutions

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