Institutions Quotes

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

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

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

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

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

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?

The world is a penal institution.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than outright extortion, a gross violation of human liberty.

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.

The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".

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

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.

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.

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that.

Home is the grandest of all institutions.

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

Christians in this country have found themselves under selective assault. God has, almost overnight, been removed from the educational, legal, and political institutions of the country.

We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.

Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.

This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

The database hugging in public institutions is hampering innovation.

One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.

If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.

The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.

Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money.

I have high respect for the Chief Justice and the institution he represents. But, I equally demand respect to the institution I represent.

In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all the important institutions such as the ABC, CSIRO and SBS.

Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him.

Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.

Viewed systematically, religion can be differentiated from other culturally constituted institutions by virtue only of its reference to superhuman beings.

In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.