Quotes About Institution

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.

Government was instituted by God to bring His laws to people and to carry out His will and purposes.

The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full.

This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Over the moon about strong support for the National Health Service - an institution I will defend to my dying day, second only to Everton FC.

The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you? Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it.

And in 1694, the last year of his life, he was allowed to see one thing more. In that year, after much discussion, the city of London gained a new institution. Financed by a number of prominent London merchants, it was a joint stock bank. Its function was to finance long-term government debt by issuing bonds on which interest was payable. They called it the Bank of London.

Sabotage is not merely something to be avoided or wished away; instead, it comes with the territory of leading, whether the "territory" is a family or an organization. And a leader's capacity to recognize sabotage for what it is—that is, a systemic phenomenon connected to the shifting balances in the emotional processes of a relationship system and not to the institution's specific issues, makeup, or goals—is the key to the kingdom.

In any type of institution whatsoever, when a self-directed, imaginative, energetic, or creative member is being consistently frustrated and sabotaged rather than encouraged and supported, what will turn out to be true one hundred percent of the time, regardless of whether the disrupters are supervisors, subordinates, or peers, is that the person at the very top of that institution is a peace-monger.

The model from which the idea of this institution has been borrowed, pointed out that course to the convention. In Great Britain it is the province of the House of Commons to prefer the impeachment, and of the House of Lords to decide upon it. Several of the State constitutions have followed the example.