Institutions Quotes · Page 7

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

— Henry Mintzberg

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

— Walter Millis

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Philip Berrigan

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

— Robert K. Merton

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

— Nina Fedoroff

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

— William Ralph Inge

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer…

— George Santayana

The communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They've tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn't they try to…

— Rush Limbaugh

The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should…

— George Scialabba

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

— Juan Ponce Enrile

The ultimate success of this government and the stability of its institutions, its progress in all that can make a nation honored,…

— Jon Lord

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage…

— Mike Rounds

Since leaving DB, I have participated in many conferences and swish events that other financial institutions have held for their women's groups.

— Stephanie Ruhle

Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling…

— Don Tapscott

Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions…

— William Julius Wilson

Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad…

— Herbert Spencer

I'm not against international institutions that would try to tackle global warming. But the way to go, at least in the short…

— Charles Krauthammer

We do not raise our children alone… Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come…

— Richard Louv

The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in bothscholarly…

— Sheila Kamerman

The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son…

— Henry David Thoreau

There are sharply different, competing models of what trans advocacy looks like - those that seek to follow the path laid out…

— Dean Spade

I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of…

— Carl Jung

I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very…

— Kehinde Wiley

The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the…

— Ted Nordhaus

As a president, you've got to show some example. I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I…

— Wole Soyinka

To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by…

— Robert M. Pirsig

They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just,…

— Jonathan Mayhew

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. Yet it is also very important to note that religion is…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Crossing the Finish Line is a must-read for anyone concerned with the disturbing fact that Americans can no longer count on each…

— Molly Corbett Broad

We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object - we don’t think about the relations…

— Angela Davis

Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith...

— Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.

— Milton Berle

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

— Lee Van Cleef

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

— Gene Simmons

Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.

— Dalai Lama

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Jeremy Scahill

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

— Simon Raven