Institutions Quotes · Page 8

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Thomas Jefferson

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

I think the Mussolinean institution of a third way alternative to comunism is currently still very relevant.

— Gianfranco Fini

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

— Joseph McCabe

You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.

— Ken Kesey

I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

— Randall Robinson

Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

— Francis Bacon

People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of…

— Martin Mayer

We know from the company we hired, Kraus Stripe , that there was Russian involvement in this to destabilize not just our…

— Donna Brazile

As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also…

— Thomas Jefferson

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It…

— Anonymous

When we speak of institutions, economists mean more than just organizations. We mean conventions, even rules, about how things are done.

— Paul Romer

You go to your public library, or you call your fire department or police department, what do you think you are calling?…

— Bernie Sanders

Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man…

— Henry James

The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which…

— Louis O. Kelso

A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom,…

— John Stuart Mill

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. I…

— Peter Singer

To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Democracy as a promise means that society can never be just enough and that the self-reflection and struggles that enable all members…

— Henry Giroux

Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a…

— Joseph Fort Newton

The New York Times is an institution that attracts careerists, who are drawn to power and access. This gave me a kind…

— Chris Hedges

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in…

— Sonia Sotomayor

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution…

— Stephen Covey

We only have one penal code in the United States, and it applies in every single state, every city, no matter who…

— Mark Durie

I went off to college, a good, middle-class, very proper college, a Brethren institution, where two years of Bible study are required…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way…

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love Not…

— Margot Kidder

The biggest issue for me is whether large numbers of Americans can begin to think that government can actually help make the…

— George Packer

The fact is that you can be a Nazi living in a little trailer in the middle of Montana and as awful…

— Louis Theroux

So: if the chronic inflation undergone by Americans, and in almost every other country, is caused by the continuing creation of new…

— Murray Rothbard

The IMF is a more complicated issue. I think there is a broad sentiment among both the left and the right that…

— Joseph Stiglitz

But, you know, I'm presiding over an institution that was designed not to work.

— John Boehner

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

— Slobodan Milosević

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

— Bertrand Russell

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

— E. Lockhart

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

— Tony Campolo

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.

— Michael K. Powell

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk