Institution Quotes

• 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

• 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
  • People
  • Mind
  • History

• 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
  • World
  • Learn
  • Institution

• Americans will see that when lesbians and gay men are given access to most of the rights and obligations of civil marriage, the sky will not fall and the institution of marriage will be even stronger.

  

  Evan Wolfson
  • Marriage
  • Americans
  • Access

• 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
  • Marriage
  • Someone
  • Would

• Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Financial
  • Architecture
  • Taxpayers

• 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
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• 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
  • Community
  • Judge
  • Institution

• 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
  • Time
  • Family
  • Independent

• 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
  • Important
  • Growth
  • Inflation

• I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Marriage
  • Forever
  • Institution

• 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
  • Life
  • Family
  • Person

• Historically, royal families have represented an institution. The institution is built on heritage, and is timeless in that sense.

  

  Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark
  • Institution
  • Represented
  • Historically

• 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
  • Word Of God
  • Preached
  • Church Of God

• 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
  • School
  • Culture
  • Direction

• 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
  • People
  • Believe
  • Marriage

• If Rip Van Winkle came back, there's only one institution he would recognize: "Oh! That's a school. Kids are still sitting in rows, still listening to the font of wisdom at the front of the classroom."

  

  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
  • Listening
  • Back
  • Recognize

• Thank you for standing strong together, and for keeping your faith in this institution that means so much to all of us.

  

  Christopher Wray
  • Together
  • Faith
  • Keeping

• Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Institution
  • Abused

• In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry.

  

  Ryoji Noyori
  • Research
  • Chemistry
  • University

• When our institutions lack movement to propel them forward, the Spirit, I believe, simply moves around them, like a current flowing around a rock in a stream...without that soul work that teaches us to open our deepest selves to God and ground our souls in love, no movement will succeed and no institution will stand...it is the linking of action and contemplation, great work and deep spirituality, that keeps goodness, rightness, beauty, and aliveness flowing...as Pope Francis has said, this moment calls for social poets: sincere and creative people who will rise on the wings of faith to catch the wind of the Spirit, the wind of justice, joy, and peace.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • God
  • Spirit
  • Pope Francis

• The truth is that Masonry is undoubtedly a religious institution, its religion being of that universal kind in which all men agree.

  

  Albert Mackey
  • Agree
  • Institution
  • Masonry

• 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
  • Religion
  • Judged
  • Conduct

• When the BBC approached me, it just felt right for me to be a part of an institution like Eurovision.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Institution
  • Eurovision

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