Institutions Quotes

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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
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. — John W. Gardner
It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed… — Henry Louis Gates
Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and… — Timothy Geithner
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as… — Charles Horton Cooley
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever… — Stephen Covey

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