Institutions Quotes

Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution.

If an institution has become so large that there is no alternative except for the taxpayers to provide support, should we allow so many institutions to exceed that kind of threshold?

Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world.

We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.

The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform.

It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.

An institution has to decide, and it's not just an option, it's a responsibility, how much diversity can be tolerated.

I think essentially corrupting institutions in Washington are turning conservatism into something that is really very creepy, but also emotionally and psychically powerful for people.

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

Once you've been in a mental institution, people are going to look at you funny.

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

I'm always quite amazed that people in Europe become unnerved when two institutions or two people have different views.

Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.

Reason like science, grows by way of mutual criticism; the only possible way of planning its growth is to develop those institutions that safeguard. the freedom of thought

[Malcolm X] shared with Marcus Garvey a commitment to building strong black institutions. He shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a commitment to peace and the freedom of racialized minorities.

This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them

Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry.

For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship.

Listen your Lordship, I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris, I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish, but I didn't inhale.

No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.

This post of President is a Constitutional post. It is the duty of everyone, all citizens to see that they respect the post... the institution of President.

Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.

In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing its best to become an inconvenience.

Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.

It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth.

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

So many people and institutions are against homosexuals that, as a homosexual, you can't waste your time by trying to convince them that you're a good person.

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.

I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

Religion is separate from the institution of the state.

You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.

The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.