Institutions Quotes

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Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. — Al Capp
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own,… — George Carlin
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. — Horatio Alger
Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism. — Stokely Carmichael
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it. — Benjamin Carson
Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting. — Graydon Carter
Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called… — Graydon Carter
Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status… — Michael N. Castle
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. — Noam Chomsky
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit,… — Noam Chomsky
The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive. We all may talk about religion as… — Natalie Angier
The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause for complacency or… — Michael Chertoff
Home is the seminary of all other institutions. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up… — Horace Mann
Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health of the nation, we will… — Harry Belafonte
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own… — John Playfair
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear… — Bertrand Russell
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed… — Abraham Flexner
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and… — James F. Cooper
Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for… — William Graham Sumner
At a time when our country is waging two wars, approval ratings for Congress are at historic lows, unemployment is at a 70-year high and… — Franklin Graham
If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth… — James C. Collins
Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of… — Sadako Ogata
Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken. — Chester A. Arthur

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