Institutions Quotes · Page 7

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— William O. Douglas

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

— Morris West

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

— LeVar Burton

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

— François-René de Chateaubriand

If there is one thing we need to avoid, it is competition between E.U. institutions.

— Miroslav Lajcak

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

— Nelson Mandela

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

— Lauren Bacall

The PMF should be loyal only to Iraq, not to anyone else: loyal to Iraqi official institutions, the commander in chief in…

— Haider al-Abadi

Misogyny - and racism - are 'hidden in plain sight,' and the burden of eliminating them should fall on the institutions, not…

— Nell Scovell

I felt like I'd been given so much by public institutions, by public schools, by community institutions like the YMCA that I…

— Colin Allred

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through…

— Margaret Mead

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think that really what our training, what our culture, our religious institutions, our educational and cultural institutions should be about is…

— Leonard Cohen

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no…

— Herbert Croly

Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world -…

— Alan Watts

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow…

— James Buchan

When each of us is free to work out his own economic destiny, within the framework of the market economy, the institution…

— Henry Hazlitt

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing…

— Henry David Thoreau

Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and…

— John Taylor Gatto

Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature,…

— Sidney Hook

I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because…

— Ned Vizzini

We also have to match the skills with the needs of the economy... I think we are losing the plot because we…

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New…

— Ibn Warraq

There are all sorts of institutions in the economic world which depart from the simple price/market model which I worked on in…

— Kenneth Arrow

In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of…

— Richard Mitchell

What drives me is a sense of urgency. We live in frightening times. Progress towards gender equality and vital battles to end…

— Catherine Mayer

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and…

— Benjamin Disraeli

I'm very committed to its educational institutions, including my alma mater Central Falls High School's drama program, because I know that's what…

— Viola Davis

Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon…

— Louis Thomas McFadden

We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can…

— Fritjof Capra

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

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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

— William Tyndale

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

— Newt Gingrich

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

— John Taylor Gatto

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Mitski

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

— Richard Pryor

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

— Drew Barrymore