Institution Quotes

655 Institution quotes by 497 unique authors

When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices… — Neal A. Maxwell
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and… — Tom Robbins
There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of… — Harper Lee
I thought we had reached an understanding, the institution of marriage and I. Weddings are like the triathalon of female friendship: the Shower, the Bachelorette… — Sloane Crosley
Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order… — John Stott
What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active,… — H.G. Wells
The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or… — Thomas Sowell
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening,… — John Pilger
Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong… — Emma Goldman
People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial… — Muhammad Yunus
Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition.… — Susan Sontag
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear… — John Marshall
The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the… — Oswald Chambers
Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man… — John Taylor Gatto
The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones,… — Henry David Thoreau
The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious… — Paul Feyerabend
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the… — Frederick Douglass
I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it. — E. Lockhart
It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and… — John Steinbeck
The "non-profit" institution neither supplies goods or services not controls. Its "product" is neither a pair of shoes nor an effective regulation. Its product is… — Peter Drucker
I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I… — Richard Dawkins
Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for… — Evelyn Waugh
To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling...… — Spencer W. Kimball

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