Institution Quotes

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. (Mae West)
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. View quote
Ivan Illich
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. View quote
Harold Wilson
Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution. View quote
Learned Hand
Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy. View quote
Don Tapscott
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? View quote
Groucho Marx
If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall. View quote
William Rehnquist
Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse. View quote
François-René de Chateaubriand
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world. View quote
Amos Oz
Marriage is fine as an institution, but bad as a habit. View quote
Buster Keaton
All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution. (Thomas Jefferson)
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations. View quote
Margaret Mead
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. View quote
Gloria Steinem
While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble. View quote
Jane Jacobs
The truth is that Masonry is undoubtedly a religious institution, its religion being of that universal kind in which all men agree. View quote
Albert Mackey
Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth. View quote
Bud Selig
I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right. View quote
Richard Pryor
It is not possible to design a laboratory resource allocation experiment without designing an institution in all its detail. View quote
Vernon L. Smith
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race. View quote
William Howard Taft
No single... If an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. View quote
Bernie Sanders
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)
There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia. View quote
David Remnick
I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage. View quote
Kyle Chandler
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. View quote
Christopher Lasch
There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes. View quote
Evan Parker