Institutions Quotes · Page 9

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

— Marco Rubio

You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.

— Alex Gibney

[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.

— Susan Sontag

I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

— Paul Haggis

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

— Anonymous

Any two public institutions appealing to the same set of people are apt to appeal in the same terms.

— Walter Millis

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

— Philip Berrigan

But ultimately, the purpose of marriage is to transmit civilization to the next generation. There has never been an institution that does…

— Ann Coulter

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

— Cecil B. DeMille

To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest…

— Luis Gonzalez

A lot of those old, 19th-century sanitariums, mental institutions, there are a number of them left here, old prisons, things like that,…

— Josh Gates

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

— Roger Scruton

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life…

— Os Guinness

In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the…

— Randall Kennedy

States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent.…

— Noam Chomsky

Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. It’s not that we don’t need…

— Amartya Sen

I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this…

— Russell Johnson

Businesses will only invest in Greece if three conditions are fulfilled. First, there must be a clear commitment to the euro. No…

— Martin Schulz

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere…

— Abraham Lincoln

The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of…

— Grover Cleveland

There was a time traditionally - say, GM in the 1950s - it was trying to develop a consumer base that would…

— Noam Chomsky

The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves…

— Murray Bookchin

A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this…

— Mike Lofgren

We really have to think about aging because women are living longer than men. More of the people who need care are…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by…

— Robert M. Pirsig

As a president, you've got to show some example. I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I…

— Wole Soyinka

They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just,…

— Jonathan Mayhew

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. Yet it is also very important to note that religion is…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Crossing the Finish Line is a must-read for anyone concerned with the disturbing fact that Americans can no longer count on each…

— Molly Corbett Broad

We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object - we don’t think about the relations…

— Angela Davis

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

— Robert K. Merton

The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.

— Harriet Martineau

The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.

— Frank Chodorov

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.

— Tim Holden

A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.

— Charlie Munger

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

— Henry Mintzberg

People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service.

— Robert L. Payton