Institutions Quotes

I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.

When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

Love is just an institution.

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms.

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?

In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."

No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.

Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.

And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.

Why shouldn't I milk it? We're an agricultural institution.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

I mean by Society, the totality of concepts of all purely natural relations and institutions between man and man.

A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan.

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.

The world is a penal institution.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes.

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples