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Institutions Quotes - Page 7

One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.

Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.166, University of Missouri Press

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist”, p.812, e-artnow

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits, Eric Ries (2016). “The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.475

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.

Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.

Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.267, Harriman House Limited

I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.

"Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

Tony Campolo (2011). “Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics”, p.68, Baker Books