Institutions Quotes

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An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded for what it… — Peter Drucker
The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts heavy strain on… — Marvin J. Ashton
To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil… — Samuel Johnson
Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope. — Johann Baptist Metz
We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it will embrace, outside… — C. F. W. Walther
Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an institution, it moved… — Paul Smith
Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a… — Maximilian Schell
Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change. But the organization… — Peter Drucker
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and… — Paddy Ashdown
In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the funds on the… — Rene Dubos
After approximately two decades and several billion dollars....Among the various types of cancer that account for 78% of the incidence..the upward trend in survival rates… — Daniel Greenberg
Wall Street bankers supposedly back the Yankees; Smith College girls approve of them. God, Brooks Brothers, and United States Steel are believed to be solidly… — Gay Talese
Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to… — John F. Kennedy
[T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the government provides Aid… — Mona Charen
People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from… — Anthony de Jasay
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong.… — C.S. Lewis
Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad state of man.… — Herbert Spencer
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible. — Sun Tzu
In the midst of wanton aggression, we still call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace… — David Ben-Gurion
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor. — Upton Sinclair
Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order.… — Kamisese Mara
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine… — Harlan F. Stone
The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game. — Albert Goodwill Spalding
Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other. — Robert Teeter

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