Institutions Quotes

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I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day,… — Thomas Jefferson
On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and flags. Gongs and… — Sun Tzu
As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges to… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy. — Bill Maher
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in… — John Dewey
When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people.… — David Korten
The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on… — Harry Golden
We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures. — Amory Lovins
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself… — Henry David Thoreau
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that… — Abraham Lincoln
When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is… — Abraham Lincoln
We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that… — Abraham Lincoln
I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under… — Abraham Lincoln
Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working… — Douglas MacArthur
Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other human institutions have… — William A. Connelly
It's OK to have fun in the Marine Corps. I like to say we are an imperfect people working in an institution that tries to… — James L. Jones
We should never lose sight of the ethos that has made the Marine Corps - where 'every Marine is a rifleman' - one of America's… — Robert M. Gates
I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do. — Simon Raven
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own… — Hannah Arendt
Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of… — John T. Flynn
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug… — Mark Twain
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. — Robert K. Merton
Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family. — Ronald Reagan
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a… — George C. Marshall

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