Institutions Quotes - Page 2

• Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Government, Church, Needs

  Charles Horton Cooley (1922). “Human Nature and the Social Order”

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• If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.859, Delphi Classics

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• Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

  Richard Dawkins

  Business, Believe, Power

  "The Root of All Evil?". Documentary, January 2006.

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• Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

  William Ralph Inge

  Rivals, Way, Hated

  William Ralph Inge (2015). “The Victorian Age”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Iron, Quitting, Maidens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Evil, Vengeance, Wave

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1524, Delphi Classics

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• Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

  Alice Hoffman

  School, People, Community

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• Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Criticism, Kind, Defeat

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• In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.

  Bobby Jindal

  Home, Louisiana, Dozen

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  I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, Believe, Army

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• What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Past, Roots, Tree

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

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• 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

  Selfish, Evil, Suffering

  Clara Barton (1899). “The Red Cross in peace and war”

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• What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

  William Blake

  Pride, Two, Wife

  William Blake (1964). “Jerusalem: A Simplified Version”

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• Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

  John Boehner

  Marriage, Wedding, Believe

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• To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Brother, Sister In Law, Pigs

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

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• The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Thinking, Freedom Of Speech, May

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.118, Reprint Services Corporation

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• The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

  Horatio Alger

  Age, Chivalry, Form

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• We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

  Warren Buffett

  Believe, Romantic Love, Night

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• The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

  Christopher Lasch

  Definitions, Our Society, Sides

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• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Freedom, 4th Of July

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

  Al Capp

  Education, Educational, Educational Institutions

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• I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

  George Carlin

  Religious, Atheist, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Country, Racism, Racist

  Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA

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• In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Shapes, States, Chiefs

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