Institutions Quotes

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We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a… — Jean Giraudoux
The world is a penal institution. — Taylor Caldwell
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels… — Saul Bellow
Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves. — Alexis de Tocqueville
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved,… — Margaret Mead
[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which… — John Stuart Mill
Let’s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our… — Peter S. Prescott
The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions… — Aldous Huxley
Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners. — William Ralph Inge
There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely. — James A. Baldwin
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. — C. Northcote Parkinson
In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take a view of the… — James Madison
It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their… — Alistair Cooke
If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in… — Eugene V. Debs
In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to… — Eugene V. Debs
The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions. — Eugene V. Debs
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit… — Lord Acton
Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection.… — Phyllis McGinley
A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious… — William Irwin Thompson
Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a… — William Irwin Thompson

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