Institution Quotes

655 Institution quotes by 497 unique authors

The Christian church does not ask the U. S. Supreme Court, or any other human court, what marriage is. Marriage is a pre-political institution defined… — Albert Mohler
Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive. — Mary Jane Ward
I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me...… — Teri Polo
There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way.… — Hunter S. Thompson
The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. — William Ralph Inge
The Australian Army is a highly respected National institution because of its people. It's all about the people. If we communicate, and leverage off all… — Ken Gillespie
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that… — William Ralph Inge
Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints. — Woody Allen
School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming… — Ivan Illich
Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just… — Thomas Sowell
Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it. — James J. Kilpatrick
everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest… — Carroll Quigley
I knew it was unrealistic to think I could build an institution overnight. But if I took baby steps, eventually it would happen. — Russell Simmons
Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push… — John Shelby Spong
Our nation needs the BRAC process. No institution can remain successful if it does not adapt to its constantly changing environment. Our armed forces must… — Anthony Principi
In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before,… — David Starkey
It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions — Art Rust, Jr.
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Because of its divine institution for the propagation of man, the seed is not to be vainly ejaculated, nor is it to be damaged, nor… — Pope Clement I
I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest… — Theodore Roosevelt
I regard the Masonic institution as one of the means ordained by the Supreme Architect to enable mankind to work out the problem of destiny;… — Theodore Roosevelt
Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in… — Will Rogers
If you like using CVS, you should be in some kind of mental institution or somewhere else. — Linus Torvalds
The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which… — Henry Adams

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