Human Institution Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the…
— James Bovard
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The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ...…
— John Stuart Mill
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly…
— Marquis de Sade
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The union of a man and a woman is the most enduring human institution, honored and encouraged in all cultures and by every religious faith."…
— George W. Bush
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Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those…
— John Brunner
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The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every…
— James Q. Wilson
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Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.
— Carl Sagan
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A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
— Eric Ries
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The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.
— Alvin Toffler
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Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in…
— Alexander Hamilton
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If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become…
— Charlie Pierce
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The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.
— Blaise Pascal
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
— Harold Wilson
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There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of…
— Harper Lee
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Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to…
— Carl Sagan
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It is important to remember that whereas justice has grandeur not devolving from the simian skull of man, law is a human institution and therefore…
— Propertius
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The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this…
— Jeff Miller
Who Wrote These Human Institution Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Human Institution Quotes as follows: