Institutions Quotes

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What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial… — Martin Filler
The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep… — Leo Tolstoy
This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may… — Thomas Jefferson
Climate alarmists believe in their own omnipotency, in knowing better than millions of rationally behaving men and women what is right or wrong, in the… — Vaclav Klaus
Though anti-Semitism had been only one of several sources of Nazi voting strength, after 1933 Hitler placed anti-Semitic ideologues, the most important of whom were… — Unknown Author
The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated… — Thomas Jefferson
Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective. — Peter Drucker
The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen. — Unknown Author
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen… — James A. Baldwin
The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted adversarial relationship...both in… — Robin Winks
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that… — Andrei Sakharov
Marriage is one of the most important institutions we have, it binds society and families together, it is a building block that promotes stability. This… — Unknown Author
How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a… — Gerald Heaney
In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly… — Marquis de Sade
Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional marriage, which foster… — Bill O'Reilly
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. — George Bernard Shaw
This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will… — Martin Mayer
There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him… — Henry Ward Beecher
It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy. — Fernando Henrique Cardoso

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