Institution Quotes

655 quotes by 519 authors

When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect… — Drew Barrymore
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human… — Clara Barton
Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony… — Lewis Black
Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family. — John Boehner
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an… — Daniel J. Boorstin
There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family… — David Bowie
Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state. — Tony Campolo
President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this… — Tony Campolo
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. — Al Capp
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. — Horatio Alger
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it. — Benjamin Carson
Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status… — Michael N. Castle
The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health of the nation, we will… — Harry Belafonte
On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and flags. Gongs and… — Sun Tzu
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in… — John Dewey
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself… — Henry David Thoreau
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that… — Abraham Lincoln
When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is… — Abraham Lincoln

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