Institutions Quotes

Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society.

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art.

Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution; it's one of the most important institutions we have.

The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.

The impact of racism has changed our look at ourselves because basically racism was meant to make us look unfaithfully at ourselves, and to not treasure our institutions.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

A sustainable human community is designed in such a manner that its ways of life, technologies, and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move and live like a rational human being.

It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.

We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God.

I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior.

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.

We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning

Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

[ Zionists] dominate the Banking institutions of America and they are the biggest contributors in politics.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.