Institutions Quotes
1523 Institutions quotes by 1010 unique authors
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There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
— Iain Duncan Smith
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I definitely want to make it very clear to everybody that the educational institution that we have, the school that Will and I have, is…
— Jada Pinkett Smith
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I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx.…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find…
— Thomas Sowell
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It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded…
— Baldwin Spencer
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For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing…
— Bruce Springsteen
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Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.
— Charles Stanley
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
— Gloria Steinem
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The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under…
— Tom Stoppard
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The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other…
— Tom Stoppard
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In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market - the executives…
— Matt Taibbi
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Marriage is a great institution.
— Elizabeth Taylor
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We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do…
— Helen Thomas
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As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
— Henry David Thoreau
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When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those…
— Mark Udall
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The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
— Thorstein Veblen
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I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like…
— Elizabeth Warren
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On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
— Daniel Webster
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs…
— Simone Weil
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