Quotes with institution

  • If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • August Strindberg Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Carine Roitfeld 'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz Although we may not know it, we have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.
    Source: Toward the Therapeutic State
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Bainbridge Colby And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Alice Hoffman Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Al Capp Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
    Al Capp
    American cartoonist and humorist (1909 - 1979)
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  • Bernice Weissbourd But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.
    Bernice Weissbourd
    American psychologist
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  • Keith Preston Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.
    Keith Preston
    American journalist (1884 - 1926)
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Dean William R. Inge Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Harold Wilson He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
    Harold Wilson
    British Labour politician (1916 - 1995)
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  • Theresa May I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.
    Theresa May
    British politician (1956 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey 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.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Bernie Sanders If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Abdurrahman Wahid If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
    Abdurrahman Wahid
    Indonesian politican and Muslim leader (1940 - 2009)
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  • Bhagat Singh In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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