Institutions Quotes - Page 26

• In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Men, Progress Of Society, Doe

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• The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Prison, Should, Humans

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• The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

  Lord Acton

  Ideas, Deception, Substance

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.28, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Marriage, Beautiful, Association

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Running, People, Risk

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• Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.

  Jack Newfield

  Adversity, Data, People

  Jack Newfield (2009). “RFK: A Memoir”, p.48, Nation Books

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• It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the true purpose of what we are and what we do in the world. Only such a new understanding will allow us to develop new models of behavior, new scales of values and goals, and thereby invest the global regulations, treaties and institutions with a new spirit and meaning.

  Vaclav Havel

  Goal, Understanding, Purpose

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• Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its strongest exercise of authority over private citizens and their institutions.

  William Greider

  War, Exercise, Government

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

  Susan Faludi

  Real, People, Want

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• I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.

  Derek Bok

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

  Derek Bok

  Educational, Thinking, Self

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• Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule. Such conditions must inevitably cause a brutalization of public life: attempted assassinations, shootings of hostages, etc.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Fall, Party, Struggle

  Rosa Luxemburg (1961). “The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?”, p.71, University of Michigan Press

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• The British are proud of their ability to create a muddle and then muddle through all difficulties. I must shake the British pride: muddle is not an exclusively British institution. Read descriptions, for instance, of the over-organized, wonderfully systematic and "thorough" German war machine during the last war.

  George Mikes

  Funny, War, Humorous

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• Progress is not possible without discipline. A nation, institution, family or individual can advance only by heeding the words of those who deserve respect and by obeying the appropriate rules and regulations. Children, obedience is not weakness. Obedience with humility leads to discipline.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Humility, Discipline

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• I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening; the principal failing in his character as a philosopher is that he does not smoke.

  John Dalton

  Character, Science, Intelligent

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• In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."

  Edward Teller

  Education, Science, Men

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• She cannot see an institution without hitting it with her handbag.

  Julian Critchley

  Political, Handbags, Hitting

  Julian Critchley (1985). “Westminster Blues: Minor Chords”, Hamish Hamilton

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• [I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

  James A. Garfield

  School, People, Support

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.783, Best Books on

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• It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.

  Richard Mentor Johnson

  Religious, Government, Church

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• If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

  Tony Campolo

  Government, Church, Sacred

  Tony Campolo (2010). “Red Letter Christians (Large Print 16pt)”, p.97, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Differences, Special, Language

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• Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.

  Robert Gordis

  Creativity, Past, Order

  Robert Gordis (1960). “A Faith for Moderns”

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• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the three original TV networks.

  Carl Bernstein

  New York, Years, Three

  "Carl Bernstein: Is Phone-Hacking Scandal Murdoch's Watergate?". www.newsweek.com. July 9, 2011.

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• We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.

  Chester Brown

  Behaviour, Stranger, Economic

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• Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

  David Frum

  Country, Desperate, Economic

  "Frum thinks critique of GOP led to boot -- 2 big bipartisan bashes -- Chris Matthews, cornered -- HHS Secretary is vastly more powerful -- Jackie Calmes to White House beat -- Kimberly Dozier to AP". www.politico.com. March 26, 2010.

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