Institution Quotes
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The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured to its presence that they could not conceive of society without it. Within the history of the United States the system of slavery immediately comes to mind.
Angela Davis -
Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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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 -
The credibility has begun to inure in the institution. Keeping inflation low and stable is an important precondition for a healthy and sustained economic growth.
Ben Bernanke -
In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the culture of schooling would represent a profound shift in emphasis and in direction.
Elliot W. Eisner -
Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.
John Calvin -
I had to learn to see the world. I followed the teachers wherever they were and I didn't care about the institution, it was more about the person.
Ben Nicholson -
Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.
Henry Paulson
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Historically, royal families have represented an institution. The institution is built on heritage, and is timeless in that sense.
Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark -
I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.
Lauren Bacall -
I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but it makes things easier.
Dale Peck -
He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.
August Strindberg -
Yesterday, voters in the state of Maine voted no to gay marriage, but yes to medical marijuana. That's right, people in Maine believe marriage should be a sacred institution between a really stoned man and a really stoned woman.
Conan O'Brien -
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
Clara Barton
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If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea -
Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.
Mahatma Gandhi -
When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.
Abraham Lincoln -
So what does one do if one’s refuge is in another person? or in an institution? or in a way of thinking? or in family life? or in a political view? or in anything which is subject to change, to birth and death?
Ajahn Sumedho -
Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Thank you for standing strong together, and for keeping your faith in this institution that means so much to all of us.
Christopher Wray
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Donald Trump is clearly the underdog in this race. Just about every organized institution has thrown everything it has at him. And they won't stop until they get their wish, that Hillary Clinton will be sworn in on January 20, 2017.
Mike Gallagher -
The truth is that Masonry is undoubtedly a religious institution, its religion being of that universal kind in which all men agree.
Albert Mackey -
When the BBC approached me, it just felt right for me to be a part of an institution like Eurovision.
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.
Allan Sandage