Institutions Quotes - Page 6

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

Love is just an institution.

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.

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.

The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.

But the fact that the word "chattel" has survived as the inclusive legal term for all movable goods, points, not merely to the great importance of cattle in primitive times, but to the importance of the notion of sale or barter in generating the institution of property.

When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.

God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

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

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing its best to become an inconvenience.

Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution.

Viewed systematically, religion can be differentiated from other culturally constituted institutions by virtue only of its reference to superhuman beings.

Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.

Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him.

I have high respect for the Chief Justice and the institution he represents. But, I equally demand respect to the institution I represent.

Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money.

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.