Institutions Quotes
1523 Institutions quotes by 1010 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making…
— Aldous Huxley
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As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the…
— Paul Krugman
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The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and…
— Hannah Arendt
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To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the…
— Hermann Hesse
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.
— Albert Einstein
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Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order…
— John Stott
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The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.
— Karl Marx
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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing,…
— Mark Twain
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Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions.
— Peggy Noonan
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In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have…
— Maya Angelou
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I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against…
— Scott Westerfeld
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What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active,…
— H.G. Wells
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