Institutions Quotes

Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.

— Dorothy Richardson

Universities are basically socialist institutions.

— Timothy Noah

Every institution is inherently demonic.

— Paul Tillich

Home is the grandest of all institutions.

— Charles Spurgeon

Join the crazed institution of the stars.

— Jethro Tull

Religion is separate from the institution of the state.

— Akbar Ganji

The institution of marriage is obsolete.

— Jane Fonda

Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Paul Haggis

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

— Anonymous

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

— Susan Sontag

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

— Alex Gibney

People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

— Henry Mintzberg

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

— Tim Holden

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

— Frank Chodorov

I believe in Spiritualism; I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which…

— Victoria Woodhull

We have funny ideas about how people in mental institutions act. We think of drooling and people going booga-booga and climbing the…

— Milos Forman

We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are…

— Bella Abzug

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any…

— C. Wright Mills

Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of…

— Gregg Easterbrook

They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that…

— Lorenzo Snow

As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States…

— Chester A. Arthur

I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That's another question. Actually,…

— Bashar al-Assad

Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's…

— Ayn Rand

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very…

— Evan Parker

As long term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. [...]…

— Anonymous

So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always…

— Thomas Szasz

If someone were to say seriously, "I'm divine," she'd have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions…

— Bette Midler

What I'm doing here is pointing out an irony: Here you have an institution that has systematically protected pedophile priests and then…

— David LaChapelle

Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a…

— Herbert Spencer

Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore…

— Douglas MacArthur

The government should cultivate the view also among the propertyless classes of the population, those who are the most numerous and the…

— Otto von Bismarck

“For Burke, almost everything that makes life worthwhile is a result of society, its inherited codes, knowledge, and institutions. These goods are…

— Jerry Z. Muller

“Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions…

— Ivan Illich

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty…

— Woodrow Wilson

'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should…

— Richard M. Nixon

In the current environment, attributing low student performance to teacher tenure is one of the great unproven causal links out there. The…

— Nicholas Lemann

To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the…

— Luke Rhinehart