Quotes with institution

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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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  • Barbara Kingsolver Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
    Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • James Graham Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
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  • Andrea Dworkin Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Mae West Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Elizabeth Taylor Marriage is a great institution.
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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  • Groucho Marx Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ivan Illich Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
    Ivan Illich
    Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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  • William Howard Taft Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.
    William Howard Taft
    American politician, judge and President of the United States (1857 - 1930)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Bryant H. McGill One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Michel Foucault Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such - as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association - the going will be hard indeed.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • B. F. Harris Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
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  • Anita Roddick Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Gloria Steinem The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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