Institutions Quotes - Page 39

• Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.

  Condoleezza Rice

  People, Political, Development

  "Condoleezza Rice plays Hardball". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. June 15, 2005.

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• My favorite quote is Thomas Jefferson`s "The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time." Well, he was a slave-owner. But these institutions, while they weren't perfect at the time, did allow people to prosper and to continue to struggle and build toward them. That's what you need, is good institutions and I think people will eventually live up to them.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Struggle, Thinking, Slave Owners

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the institution of marriage as a union between one man and one woman. They got the joke. And the American people get the joke.

  Ken Blackwell

  Men, Civilization, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.

  Nicolle Wallace

  Believe, Treasure, Want

  "Supreme Court tackles gay marriage, as advocates line up for historic argument". www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2013.

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• When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.

  Newt Gingrich

  Court, Judicial

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• We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents the people. The courts do not practice justice any more. The armies never stop playing at being the policemen of the world and of oil.

  Gore Vidal

  War, Army, Practice

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• There is an urgent need to-day for the citizens of a democracy to think well. It is not enough to have freedom of the Press and parliamentary institutions. Our difficulties are due partly to our own stupidity, partly to the exploitation of that stupidity, and partly to our own prejudices and personal desires.

  Susan Stebbing

  Thinking, Stupidity, Desire

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• It is very unique. I think what happens in a big, major institution is coaches get wrapped up in their own little deals.

  Lisa Stone

  Thinking, Unique, Littles

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• Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.

  John Goodwin

  Responsibility, Law, Justice

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• Dartmouth is the place I've devoted my life to, so it's very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution.

  Jon Appleton

  Intellectual, Kind, Very Sad

  "Long-time music prof leaves for Stanford". The Dartmouth, September 30, 2005.

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• For two years now, my office has had the honour and the privilege of sponsoring seminars on the functioning of government in this country for Eastern Europeans. These seminars and exchanges have brought together representatives from such nations as Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republic, Roumania, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Ukraine, all of them anxious to learn what makes a society as diverse as Canada work and how our institutions make it governable.

  John Allen Fraser

  Country, Government, Ukraine

  "The House of Commons at Work". Book by John Fraser, 1993.

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• If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve becomes vitally important.

  John Allen Fraser

  People, Democracy, Important

  "The House Of Commons At Work". Book by John Allen Fraser, 1993.

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• As the United Nations pushes for jurisdiction over the globe, it is important to remember how it has acted in Bosnia. The character of an institution, no less than of an individual, is revealed through actions, not words.

  Wendy McElroy

  Character, Important, Bosnia

  "Is the U.N. Running Brothels in Bosnia?" by Wendy McElroy, www.foxnews.com. January 22, 2002.

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• Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.

  Jack Gleeson

  People, Growing, Members

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• As Americans we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free thinking and engaged audience.

  Lester Holt

  Independent, Thinking, Circles

  Lester Holt's Commencement Address at University of California, Merced, www.today.com. May 17, 2010.

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• An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Rome, Feet

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• I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

  Zak Orth

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Tribeca Film Festival Interview: Monogamous with Zak Orth". Interview with Caitlin Colford, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2010.

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• Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.

  Bruce Sterling

  Fire, Worry, Gorillas

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• Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.

  Boris Sidis

  Self, Instinct, Preservation

  "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 311), 1922.

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• We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our own lines, unembarrassed by what Western civilisation has to teach us and unhampered by the institutions which the West has imposed.

  Chittaranjan Das

  Destiny, Individuality, Lines

  "Deshabandhu Chitta Ranjan: brief survey of life and work, provincial conference speeches, Congress speeches". Book by Chitta Ranjan Das, Rajen Sen, B.K. Sen, "Undelivered presidential address for the session of Indian Congress held at Ahmedabad in December 1921", 1926.

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• [T]he Rev. R. Taylor, A.M., the Deist, now in gaol, infamously persecuted by the Whigs for his religious opinions, in his learned defense of Deism called the Diegesis, has clearly proved all the heirarchical institutions of the Christians to be a close copy of those of the Essenians of Egypt.

  Godfrey Higgins

  Christian, Religious, Egypt

  "Anacalypsis". Book by Godfrey Higgins, p. 787, 1833.

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• A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Art, Museums, Breathing

  "Why public spaces must allow private thoughts" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2006.

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• Through my Faith-Based and Community Initiative, my Administration continues to encourage the essential work of faith-based and community organizations. Governments can and should support effective social services, including those provided by religious people and organizations. When government gives that support, it is important that faith-based institutions not be forced to change their religious character.

  George W. Bush

  Religious, Humor, Character

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• The days of discriminating against religious institutions simply because they are religious must come to an end.

  George W. Bush

  Religious, Humor, Political

  "Bush Speaks at Annual National Prayer Breakfast". www.cnn.com. February 1, 2001.

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• Our plan will not favor religious institutions over nonreligious institutions. As president, I'm interested in what is constitutional and I'm interested in what works.

  George W. Bush

  Religious, Humor, Political

  "Bush Speaks at Annual National Prayer Breakfast". www.cnn.com. February 1, 2001.

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