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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Hero, People

  Noam Chomsky (2002). “The Umbrella of U.S. Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy”, p.42, Seven Stories Press

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• 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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• 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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• In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Organization, Political, Majority

  The Guardian, July 28, 1989.

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• The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

  John W. Gardner

  Age, Hallmark, Aspiration

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• The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

  Arthur Henderson

  Partnership, Unesco, Obligation

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Compassion, Profile, Congress

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  The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

  Lee Iacocca

  Family, Cousin, Rocks

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• Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

  Ivan Illich

  Humorous, Health, Doctors

  "Medical Nemesis". Book by Ivan Illich, 1976.

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, Believe, Army

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