Institutions Quotes

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions.

The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

Every institution is inherently demonic.

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.

The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.

Have you ever thought that radical ideas threaten institutions, then become institutions, and in turn reject radical ideas which threaten institutions?

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.

The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters.

Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.

I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

In the American colonies, the main problem of liberty has been solved, demonstrated and practiced in such a manner as not to leave much to be said by European institutions.

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution.

The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family and all of those institutions that have helped to make you who you are.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness.

Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.

The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art.

Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones.

The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.

I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution; it's one of the most important institutions we have.

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

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.

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole.

Over the longer term, the institutions and powers of the EU will continue to expand and certain policymaking powers, heretofore vested in the member states, will be delegated or transferred to, or pooled and shared with EU institutions. As a result, the sovereignty of the member states will increasingly be eroded.

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.

[ Zionists] dominate the Banking institutions of America and they are the biggest contributors in politics.

Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.

I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.