Institution Quotes
655 quotes by 518 authors
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We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It's OK to have fun in the Marine Corps. I like to say we are an imperfect people working in an institution that tries to…
— James L. Jones
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I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.
— Simon Raven
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Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of…
— John T. Flynn
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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug…
— Mark Twain
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Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
— Robert K. Merton
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
— August Strindberg
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I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. I proposed a constitutional amendment. The reason…
— George W. Bush
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Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a…
— George Santayana
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Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling…
— Emma Goldman
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In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the…
— George Gissing
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Why shouldn't I milk it? We're an agricultural institution.
— Jim Valvano
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Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have…
— Charlize Theron
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It's a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention or capacity to…
— Hendrik Hertzberg
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You want us to step in and render a decision based on an assessment of the effects of this institution which is newer than cellphones…
— Samuel Alito
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The whole of life has become an institution, a madhouse in which duties are to be fulfilled not love; in which you have to behave,…
— Rajneesh
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When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, and…
— Gustave Courbet
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Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finishes up.
— Les Dawson
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