Institutions Quotes - Page 4

• Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Wish, World

  'Representative Men' (1850) 'Montaigne'

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• Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of leaders to tackle the causes and to settle for peace, and international determination to push for peace and then to consolidate it. Consolidating peace means helping societies emerging from war to reintegrate refugees in safety and dignity, to rebuild their institutions - including in the field of justice and human rights - and to resume their economic development.

  Sadako Ogata

  Determination, War, Mean

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• We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Women, Feminism, Needs

  "Feminism's Assumptions Upended" by Barbara Ehrenreich, articles.latimes.com. May 16, 2004.

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• When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.

  David Korten

  Money, Suicidal, Acceptance

  "When Corporations Rule the World". Book by David Korten, January 1, 1995.

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• What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into them. We need a feminism that teaches a woman to say no - not just to the date rapist or overly insistent boyfriend but, when necessary, to the military or corporate hierarchy within which she finds herself. We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Military, Women, Feminism

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• India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.

  Pratibha Patil

  Country, Strong, Thinking

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• It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Freedom Of Speech, Constitution

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• That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Law, Games

  "With Walt Whitman in Camden". Book by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV (p. 508), 1906.

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• The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Broken, Historical, Mind

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• Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

  James Madison

  Education, Light, People

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.41, University of Virginia Press

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• I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

  Andrew Eldritch

  England, Social, Better Woman

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• The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

  Walt Whitman

  Individuality, Conformity, Inconsiderate

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• Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finishes up.

  Les Dawson

  Marriage, Couple, Sex Maniac

  Les Dawson (2013). “No Tears for the Clown: An Autobiography”, p.95, Michael O'Mara Books

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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

  Harold Wilson

  Change, Life Changing, Teaching

  Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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• Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Eye, Heart

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1338, GENERAL PRESS

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• Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

  Fred M. Vinson

  Peace, War, Men

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• Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

  William Godwin

  School, Government, Hands

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• Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

  C. Wright Mills

  Men, Personality, Doe

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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• Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Heart, People

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• The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

  Walter Bagehot

  Civilization, Culture, Firsts

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.74

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• Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Law, Liberty

  William Graham Sumner (2007). “The Forgotten Man and Other Essays”, p.472, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.

  Simon Raven

  Army

  Simon Raven (1963). “Boys Will be Boys”

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• Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

  Simone Weil

  Equality, Degrees, Needs

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.224, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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  Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

  Mae West

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  I'm No Angel (motion picture) (1933). Nigel Rees, in his Quote ... Unquote Newsletter, has found this joke appearing earlier in the cartoon "Pop" in 1921: "woman: 'You say what you like, Pop! Marriage is a jolly good institution!' POP: 'Yes! But who wants to live in an institution?"

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• All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

  Morris West

  Vices, Corruption, Members

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