Institutions Quotes · Page 51

We have been using foreign affairs ministries to address security issues, but this practice is outdated. It's time to assign the handling…

— Enrique Pena Nieto

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions…

— Thomas Frank

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.

— Anonymous

At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and…

— Marco Rubio

The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved.…

— Anna Quindlen

We can make American governing institutions better, but we can't make them better if nobody wants to go into them because we're…

— Amy McGrath

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

— Niall Ferguson

Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its…

— Ralph Adams Cram

“More intriguingly, in poll after poll, when Americans are asked what public institutions they most respect, three bodies are always at the…

— Fareed Zakaria

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that…

— Hannah Arendt

We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War…

— David Brooks

The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary…

— John Stuart Mill

The presumption that the law can tell us what natural institution is supposed to be is a formula for totalitarianism. There's not…

— Francis George

While religious institutions should be able to pick and choose which unions they bless, civil governments should issue marriage licenses to all…

— Richard Grenell

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

— Samantha Power

One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

— Frederick Wiseman

“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an…

— Andy Rooney

Trade, tourism, cultural exchange, and participation in international institutions all serve to erode the legitimacy of repressive regimes.

— Jacob Weisberg

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

— John Marshall

The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments…

— Peter Senge

We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.

— Nick Harkaway

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.

— Bruce Sterling

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

— Kingsley Martin

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

— Margaret Mead

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress,…

— Anthony Holden

A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has…

— Josiah Royce

Frank Lowy is an institution in Australian sport but judging by this decision he might be visiting a different kind of institution.…

— Clive Palmer

You can't have a market without government, because governments create the rules of competition and enforce fairness in the markets, and they…

— Douglas Massey

Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and…

— Don Tapscott

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being…

— P. J. O'Rourke

As a former Bank of England economist, I know how important our institutions are in providing the stability and certainty that strong,…

— Rachel Reeves

This notion that 'what happens in your house doesn't affect what happens in my house' on the subject of the institution of…

— Lance B. Wickman

Institutions like mutual funds often worry that if they disclose their plans to buy a stock, copycats will move quickly and drive…

— Alex Berenson

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

— Anonymous

I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

— Anonymous