Institutions Quotes

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We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will… — Muhammad Yunus
The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees… — Joan D. Chittister
Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come… — Barack Obama
The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing… — Joyce Carol Oates
Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children. — August Strindberg
I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results… — Thomas Jefferson
I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. — Thomas Jefferson
To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just… — Ronald Reagan
I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. I proposed a constitutional amendment. The reason… — George W. Bush
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a… — George Santayana
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate. — Benjamin Disraeli
Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling… — Emma Goldman
A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character. — Herbert Spencer
In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the… — George Gissing
Why shouldn't I milk it? We're an agricultural institution. — Jim Valvano
Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have… — Charlize Theron
It's a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention or capacity to… — Hendrik Hertzberg
I feel that gay people not being able to get married for generations, forever, meant that we came up with alternative ways of recognizing relationships.… — Rachel Maddow
You want us to step in and render a decision based on an assessment of the effects of this institution which is newer than cellphones… — Samuel Alito
Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings… — Jennifer Granholm
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions. — William Godwin
The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse.… — Vaclav Havel
The whole of life has become an institution, a madhouse in which duties are to be fulfilled not love; in which you have to behave,… — Rajneesh
I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most courageous act possible.… — Rajneesh
When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, and… — Gustave Courbet

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