Institutions Quotes

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The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious… — Franz Oppenheimer
I mean by Society, the totality of concepts of all purely natural relations and institutions between man and man. — Franz Oppenheimer
Liberals have shifted government into a position of being neutral between right and wrong. By concentrating power in government institutions, liberals chisel at the three… — James G. Watt
Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate… — Tony Dungy
We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can also model communities… — Fritjof Capra
The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad,… — Mortimer Adler
Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and the luster you… — Unknown Author
Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not that Level 5… — James C. Collins
To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships even… — Robert M. Pirsig
The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete… — Sam Keen
With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine,… — Unknown Author
Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions of freedom. The… — Michael Strong
Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical… — Paul Hawken
Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases. — Milton Berle
Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God. — Myles Munroe
Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means that nothing else… — Jessica Valenti
It is intended to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with… — Raphael Lemkin
A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back… — Renny Harlin
Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error. — Unknown Author
The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short… — Robert Higgs
I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life… — Jenna Elfman
I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of… — Henry R. Luce
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.… — Carl Jung
Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery? — Tatyana Ali
We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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