Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone. Security also lies in the value of our free institutions.
Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.
Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.
Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.
We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions.
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
An institution has to decide, and it's not just an option, it's a responsibility, how much diversity can be tolerated.
One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.
Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.
Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.
Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air conditioning and have good shows.
Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him.
I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.
The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art.
We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.
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.
The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.
Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.
If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.
I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution; it's one of the most important institutions we have.
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
Listen your Lordship, I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris, I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish, but I didn't inhale.
Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.
Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.
In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.
To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
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.
I have high respect for the Chief Justice and the institution he represents. But, I equally demand respect to the institution I represent.
The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.
The court's recent decisions have made life more difficult for the democratic institutions that perform the day- to-day work of our nation.
Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money.
I think that the candidates who are doing it [not debating] are doing a great disservice to the party. It`s a sign of an unhealthy institution.
Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.
So persuasive is the power of the institutions we have created that they shape not only our preferences but actually our sense of possibilities.
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.
I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.
When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.