Church Quote by Edward Abbey

The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these…

— Alan Barth

Government has crowded out the role of many social institutions, including the Church, that have been a great force for good in public life.

— Wendy Long

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine…

— Thomas Jefferson

The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the…

— Pope Benedict XVI

My own view is that institutions are a glory, and for all their imperfections, something really to be proud of. It is true that…

— Cass Sunstein

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

An institution is beyond any individual. It breathes and lives on its own and always will.

— Nita Ambani

If a state indicts good into their system and law then only good should come from it. Therefore if things are good there is…

— Anonymous

The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree…

— Aristotle

People make institutions, not vice versa.

— Shere Hite

Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from…

— David Brooks

The civil Government, though bereft of every thing like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete success; whilst…

— James Madison