Institutions Quotes

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I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior… — Mario Monti
I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest. — Abraham Lincoln
If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is… — Abraham Lincoln
May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have… — Abraham Lincoln
This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions. — Abraham Lincoln
The Christian church does not ask the U. S. Supreme Court, or any other human court, what marriage is. Marriage is a pre-political institution defined… — Albert Mohler
Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive. — Mary Jane Ward
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand… — Hans Haacke
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are,… — Hans Haacke
I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me...… — Teri Polo
Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original picture of them… — Peter York
If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in… — Ralph Adams Cram
The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system. — Lee R. Raymond
There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way.… — Hunter S. Thompson
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them. — George Bernard Shaw
The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. — William Ralph Inge
We are at the very point in time when a 400-year old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting… — Dee Hock
We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the… — Ezra Taft Benson
Some of the power has shifted from companies to people. Using social media tools (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc.) more individuals are creating semi-spontaneous 'groundswells' of… — Charlene Li
The Australian Army is a highly respected National institution because of its people. It's all about the people. If we communicate, and leverage off all… — Ken Gillespie
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that… — William Ralph Inge
I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle… — Ivan Illich
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more… — Alexis de Tocqueville
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. And if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to the moneyed interests,… — Robert Reich

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