Institution Quotes

655 quotes by 518 authors

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
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
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
I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do. — Simon Raven
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
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
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. — Robert K. Merton
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
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
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
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
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
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
Why shouldn't I milk it? We're an agricultural institution. — Jim Valvano
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
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
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
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
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
Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finishes up. — Les Dawson

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