Quotes with institutions

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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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  • George Carlin I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Cass Sunstein If the air quality is terrible in Los Angeles, if a particular university is unusually expensive, if crime is on the rise in Dallas, or if a company has a lot of recalled toys, transparency can spur change. Whenever public or private institutions have to answer to the public, their performance is likely to improve.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Charles Darwin If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Bobby Jindal In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
    Speech in Manchester (1866)
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Robert Hewison Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • George Mcgovern It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
    George Mcgovern
    American historian, author (1922 - 2012)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Baldwin Spencer It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
    Baldwin Spencer
    Antigua and Barbuda politican and labour leader (1948 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • James Madison Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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  • Daniel Webster Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Ruth Benedict No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
    Ruth Benedict
    American anthropologist and folklorist (1887 - 1948)
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  • Benazir Bhutto Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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