Institutions Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

  Michael Novak

  Work, Government, Political

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• We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

  Jim DeMint

  Past, Conflict, Mature

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• We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Crazy, Personality, Insanity

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  The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Fall, Government, Hands

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• The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.

  Alvin Toffler

  Struggle, Tomorrow, Crux

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• Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

  Bertrand Russell

  Privilege, Revolutionary, Habit

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Why Men Fight”, p.107, Routledge

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• The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

  Albert Einstein

  Political, Development, Purpose

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• With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  Doris May Lessing (1992). “African laughter: four visits to Zimbabwe”

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• As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Discovery, Pace, Opinion

  Thomas Jefferson (1998). “Thomas Jefferson: His Words and Vision”, p.18, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

  Anita Roddick

  Powerful, Government, Pockets

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• I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Hands, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (1998). “Thomas Jefferson: His Words and Vision”, p.18, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

  Bono

  Defense, World, Homework

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• Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

  Angela Davis

  Color, People, Prison

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• We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Religious, School, Media

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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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• True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Knowing, People, Literature

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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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• I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Baby, Yale, Perfect

  "Sotomayor Praises Affirmative Action". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2009.

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• 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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