Institution Quotes

• In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part because of trepidation about marriage, which was then a very confining institution, there was a big population of women - mostly middle-class white women on the East Coast - who didn't marry.

  

  Rebecca Traister
  • American
  • Because
  • Century

• Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Never

• The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Hands
  • Institution
  • Euro

• I don't believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to shareholders. I am not saying that institutions should be set up for charity.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Money
  • Charity
  • Dividends

• Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the mutual hatred between motorist and pedestrian, these manifestations seem to constitute the ultimate in righteous wrath.

  

  H. Allen Smith
  • High
  • Hate
  • Place

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

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • World
  • Political
  • Religion

• The National Socialist Movement, which aims at establishing the National Socialist People's State, must always bear steadfastly in mind the principle that every future institution under that State must be rooted in the movement itself.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Movement
  • State
  • Aims

• Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • American
  • You
  • Rip

• The world is a penal institution.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • World
  • Institution

• An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Leaders
  • Institution
  • Suffers

• Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Family
  • Humanity
  • Break

• It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their institutions.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

  

  Aristotle
  • Law
  • Highest
  • Guardians

• Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Women
  • Legend
  • Candidates

• The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Valuable
  • Institution
  • Monarchical

• We have seen the extent of the desecration and destruction of the facilities of the finest institution in the country.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Country
  • Destruction
  • Desecration

• This institution of Heaven, when properly attended to, understood, and cordially embraced, turns men from darkness to marvelous light. If it finds them in a state of savage ignorance and barbarity it civilizes them, and forms them to be intelligent and good members of society.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Men
  • Darkness
  • Heavens

• The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Family
  • Rock
  • Works

• I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some free information that will enrich your life. Read it on your own time. I trust that you will bring it back when you are finished.' It might be the most civilized, forward-thinking institution in America. Perhaps the only one, in fact.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.

  

  Alveda King
  • Marriage
  • Genocide
  • Procreation

• It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.

  

  Richard Mentor Johnson
  • Government
  • Religion
  • Province

• The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.

  

  Catharine Beecher
  • English
  • Aristocracy
  • Prayer-Book

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

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Like
  • Laws
  • Clocks

• I think as an educational institution, at some point during a student's journey, it becomes important to understand the origins of our country, ... To provide that opportunity is to encourage all students, staff and faculty to take advantage of this experience. It is my hope that after this week, many of us will have both a greater understanding and appreciation of what the Constitution means to us.

  

  Charles Bowen
  • Important
  • Country
  • Experience

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