“a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution” — Jean Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Parliament was an institution of enormous standing when I was aspiring to go in. It isn't now. — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
Thackeray is an institution that cannot become irrelevant because of one election. — Sharad Pawar Copy Share Image
There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the… — Philip Hammond Copy Share Image
This country, of course, needs fundamental reform of our financial regulatory system, as I, and many other financial institution executives, have publicly… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar… — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
There was a mental institution near my house, and I would donate time teaching mentally ill patients how to do ceramics. I… — Steven Klein Copy Share Image
I think everything belongs in a certain place, for kids who feel they don't belong anywhere. A museum is an institution like… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage?… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I think that all countries that participate in multilateral institutions see the institutions as a way of advancing what they view as… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
“What is marriage anymore, anyway? How is the institution structured? What assumptions do we bring to it? Is it an irreducible economic… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“The transmission of the meaning of an institution is based on the social recognition of that institution as a “permanent” solution to… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“Marriage is not an institution. It's a relationship. Like I said I don't create institutions that's an occupation for those who want… — Wm. Paul Young Copy Share Image
An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“In his lecture on Jesus, Brown meditated on the unlikely paradox that any institution could represent this man because institutions, by their… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
“Church historians often ask, ‘Is the church a movement or an institution?' . . . I think it is both. . .… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
“One of them is a very familiar personage. Her name is “Mother Church.” She is, in many ways, an admirable and dedicated… — Rosemary Haughton Copy Share Image