Institution Quotes

655 Institution quotes by 497 unique authors

Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they… — Henry Adams
Any person, institution or organization that conveys bodies or parts of bodies into or out of the state for medical education or research purposes shall… — Charlie Crist
Self-confidence is inseparable from submission to the creedal order, and through that order, to the supreme authority expressed in that order. ... Deep individualism cannot… — Philip Rieff
And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven… — Emma Goldman
The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution. — Blaise Pascal
I did an expose of an institution for the population with developmental disabilities, and the institutions were closed as a result of the expose. Now… — Geraldo Rivera
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one… — Michel Foucault
I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up… — Stephen Fry
It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed… — Henry Louis Gates
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever… — Stephen Covey
I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person… — Jack Dee
Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And… — Jacques Derrida
Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution. — Jacques Derrida
Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit. — Bruce Dickinson
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be… — Peter Drucker
Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to… — Andrea Dworkin
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody… — Alice Hoffman
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. — Victor Hugo
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I… — Hubert H. Humphrey
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. — Lee Iacocca
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick… — Ivan Illich
I always enjoy the job and the work that I do, because that's the condition that I attach in accepting any job. This way, I… — Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival. — William Ralph Inge
Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today… — Naveen Jain

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