Institution Quotes

655 Institution quotes by 497 unique authors

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person. — Mikhail Bulgakov
He quietly groaned. Again and again, he’d witnessed this phenomenon with his friends. They got married. They were happy in that sated, grateful way of… — Tessa Dare
You know, people always warn children about taking candy from strange adults. But they never warn us adults about taking candy from strange children. All… — Pseudonymous Bosch
The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it. — Arthur Conan Doyle
You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane. — Ken Kesey
I don’t think we’ll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if we’re going to change what’s rapidly becoming… — John Taylor Gatto
You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you… — Michel Foucault
I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I… — Ned Vizzini
He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent… — August Strindberg
Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right.… — Jasper Fforde
Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’… — Jacque Fresco
Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom… — Arthur Koestler
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to… — Carl Sagan
Friendship is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if… — Muhammad Ali
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution… — Rosa Luxemburg
I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving… — Martin Luther
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of possessiveness, full of… — Rajneesh
I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so maybe it is… — Rajneesh
Marriage exists as an institution of exploitation, it is not togetherness. That is why no happiness comes out of it as a flowering. It cannot.… — Rajneesh
Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single. — Rajneesh
power... Military success is not sufficient to win: economic development, institution-building and the rule of law, promoting internal reconciliation, good governance, providing basic services to… — Robert M. Gates
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. — Max Weber
I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man or by the… — Roger Babson
The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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