Institutions Quotes

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. — Mae West
All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members. — Morris West
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. — Harold Wilson
Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given… — Muhammad Yunus
Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than… — Martin Filler
To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image. — Evgeny Morozov
My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of political and moral… — Evgeny Morozov
Behind me, I heard a young woman of 25 say, "If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college." Now,… — Lewis Black
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own… — Michel Foucault
I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not set its face… — Dorothy Day
When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and… — D. H. Lawrence
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that… — William James
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting… — George Bernard Shaw
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations. — Thomas Jefferson
When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices… — Neal A. Maxwell
I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different… — Henry David Thoreau
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny. — Philip Yancey
A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for… — Noam Chomsky
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and… — Tom Robbins
There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of… — Harper Lee
In contrast to the institutions of the world, which teach us to KNOW something, the gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to BECOME something...The gospel… — Dallin H. Oaks
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion… — Margaret Mead
I thought we had reached an understanding, the institution of marriage and I. Weddings are like the triathalon of female friendship: the Shower, the Bachelorette… — Sloane Crosley

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