Quotes about Institutions

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Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and econ — John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
Invariably, knowledge dictates life, liberty, and death, but those who have historically occupied the seats of power not — Martin Guevara Urbina, Latino Access to Higher Education: Ethnic Realitites and New Directions for the Twenty-first Century
Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of tim — Richard Dawkins
I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an ac — Andy Rooney, Sincerely, Andy Rooney
The church may update its techniques and methods, but it is always in service of the institutional organism. This is one — Darrel Ray, Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
The acquiring of intelligence doesn't require an institution if you got the heart to seek knowledge, and the balls to us — James Emlund
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to — Keith Richards
If people institute wrong institutions, wrong institutions do not just produce wrong people, but wrong people who unders — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions religious institutions have created problems for s — DaShanne Stokes
Psychiatric institutions are filled with lots of normal people. — Anthony T. Hincks
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. — Mae West, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
What if good institutions were in fact the product of good intentions? What if the cynicism that is supposed to be rigor — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free. — DaShanne Stokes
There are great virtues in a conservative attitude towards structural features of government. The sudden abandonment of — Alexander Bickel
All of the administrative methods used in professional circles- confidentiality, whatever else is in vogue- are just too — Guy Mankowski, An Honest Deceit
Within this historic and optimistic future in mind, I have made no value judgment of the destiny bestowed on each nation — Patrick Mendis, Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order
When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,and when we escape like squirrels turning in thecages of our personality — D.H. Lawrence
Family ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, — August Strindberg, Tjänstekvinnans son
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an ex — George Bernard Shaw