Institutions Quotes · Page 20

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

— Abraham Lincoln

The E.U., its institutions, structure and ways of working are an anachronism.

— Priti Patel

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

— Paddy Ashdown

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

A lot of people who were studying with me turned out to be journalists or worked in big institutions.

— Simon Mignolet

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

— Carl Bernstein

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

— William Godwin

Over time, low rates can put pressure on the business models of financial institutions.

— Jerome Powell

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

One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.

— Harry S. Truman

People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor…

— Muhammad Yunus

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an…

— Andy Rooney

Millennials are not deeply familiar with school choice, and have some reservations, especially about the types of institutions that a student might…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

“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

Many, many times I would shake my head in dismay at the goings-on in the House of Commons, but that never caused…

— Jason Kenney

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

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

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

— Hannah Arendt

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

— Fareed Zakaria

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

I'm not sure that it's right to view this as excluding a particular group. When the institution of marriage developed historically, people…

— John Roberts

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the…

— William Howard Taft

The United Nations is actually a mid-20th century institution and much weaker than it was when it was originally created, because governments…

— Mary Robinson

We also know that the various faith-based institutions provide about 50 per cent of the health and education services in the poor…

— Thoraya Obaid

[The U.S. Treasury] can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more…

— Warren Buffett

“As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy with which we all begin as children,…

— George Bernard Shaw

I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even…

— Benjamin Rush

We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what…

— Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are…

— Thomas Sowell

Dear friends, let us not forget the flesh of Christ which is in the flesh of refugees: their flesh is the flesh…

— Pope Francis

We don't want to govern the country without democratic institutions.

— Jovenel Moise

In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."

— Edward Teller

Satan is attacking the great institutions of America. This is a spiritual war. I believe in good and evil.

— Rick Santorum

I think society is entitled to recognize marriage as an institution that involves one man and one woman.

— Phyllis Schlafly

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

— Joan Fontaine

Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions.

— Peggy Noonan

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

— Anonymous