Institutions Quotes · Page 9

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

— Jacques Chirac

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Once you've been in a mental institution, people are going to look at you funny.

— Drew Barrymore

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

— Noam Chomsky

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

— Richard Pryor

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.

— Mitski

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

— Newt Gingrich

I'm not going to name anybody, but I think there are about five to 10 global institutions that will emerge as our…

— Jamie Dimon

You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they…

— Roque Dalton

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious…

— Abraham Lincoln

The entire global 'Human Rights' framework, rooted in the 1951 U.N. Refugee Convention and made up of nebulous NGOs and institutions, is…

— Anna Paulina Luna

To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its…

— Evgeny Morozov

For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated…

— Herbert Schiller

Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider…

— Mitch Kapor

We do need great change in Burma. We are trying to build a new society, a society where basic human rights are…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas engender…

— Ludwig von Mises

I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has…

— Frances Harper

A few months ago people were talking about seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Now the only hope is…

— Jeffrey Garten

The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution…

— George Washington

He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church…

— Eddie Gibbs

The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to…

— George Washington

Many more children observe attitudes, values and ways different from or in conflict with those of their families, social networks,and institutions. Yet…

— James P. Comer

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

“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

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

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

— Douglas MacArthur

What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all…

— Jack Zipes

Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.

— John Taylor Gatto

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

— William Tyndale

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

— Henry James Sumner Maine

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

— Nelson Mandela

Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

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

— LeVar Burton

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

— Morris West

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

— William O. Douglas