Institutions Quotes

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Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church… — D. Patrick Miller
Ours is a land rich in resources; stimulating in its glorious beauty; filled with millions of happy homes; blessed with comfort and opportunity. In no… — Herbert
Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you… — Peter Blair Henry
Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or… — Kevin Carson
And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service. — Harry S. Truman
The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all… — William C. Bryant
Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions. — George Bernard Shaw
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head,… — William Hazlitt
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be… — Abraham Flexner
It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute… — Charles Hodge
Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and… — Bill Vaughan
The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven… — Emma Goldman
This is not the time for political fun and games. This is the time for a new beginning. I ask you now to put aside… — Ronald Reagan
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most… — John Quincy Adams
The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human institutions upon social… — John Quincy Adams
The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution. — Blaise Pascal
I did an expose of an institution for the population with developmental disabilities, and the institutions were closed as a result of the expose. Now… — Geraldo Rivera
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one… — Michel Foucault
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions. — Michel Foucault
You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous… — Ron Fournier
Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead. — Thomas Frank
The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The… — Al Franken
I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up… — Stephen Fry
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. — John Kenneth Galbraith

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