Institutions Quotes · Page 12

The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.

— Catharine Beecher

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

— Angus Deaton

The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.

— John Henrik Clarke

In China, we are considering ways of resolving our problems by improving our institutions.

— Deng Xiaoping

The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.

— Marco Rubio

“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper.”

— Bryant McGill

For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship.

— Mike Tyson

“It's not the institution which makes its students famous but the students who achieve great heights make their institutions famous.”

— Amit Abraham

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

— Salman Rushdie

Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than…

— Phil Donahue

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has…

— John L. Lewis

Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data.

— Henry Giroux

I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a…

— David Brock

Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

— Muhammad Yunus

I think that almost all traditional institutions are sexist, and they're probably racist and homophobic, and they're all of these things. But…

— Jessica Valenti

It is one of my targets to show people that a lot of things that are part of their landscape - that…

— Michel Foucault

In order to gain some insight into the forces that elevate certain products to the level of 'works of art' it is…

— Hans Haacke

“Learning how to balance the needs of individuals with the no-less-real needs of an institution was an important lesson. It's fine to…

— Sonia Sotomayor

The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe…

— Edward Gibbon

Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of…

— Thomas Kuhn

Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive. We all may talk…

— Natalie Angier

There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling…

— Ludwig von Mises

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions:…

— Robert Reich

The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or…

— Humphry Davy

Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public…

— Rosa Luxemburg

But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of…

— Rajneesh

We have to find a way of understanding how one category of sex can be "assigned" from both and another sense of…

— Judith Butler

I remember every player-every single one-who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you…

— Pat Summitt

That's been lost. It's a huge problem. What you have is you have the major institutions of the world all wanting to…

— Warren Buffett

It is intended to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of…

— Raphael Lemkin

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

— George Bernard Shaw

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

— Anatoly Chubais

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

— John W. Gardner

Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that.

— Caroline Criado-Perez

Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.

— Michael Lee-Chin

Any institutions' alumni are key to its growth. We are focused on giving a global experience to our students.

— Shiv Nadar

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

— Amos Oz

Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along.

— David Blankenhorn