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Quotes About Institution

The doctrines which the Jews had been spreading throughout the land for years could not but have helped to undermine the Church's power.
~ Lewis Browne
A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons.
~ Noam Chomsky
Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.
~ Richard Dreyfuss
The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.
~ Catharine Beecher
Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.
~ Blaise Pascal
Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.
~ Myles Munroe
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
~ Ben Carson
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
~ William O. Douglas
God created the institution of human marriage to reflect, or mirror forth, this eternal union. In other words, human marriage exists to point men and angels to the eternal marriage of Christ and his church. The gospel made this divine marriage possible. Here is our point: human marriage exists to preach the gospel. It exists to illustrate the fruit that should follow the preaching of the gospel in the church. To
~ William P. Farley
God created the institution of marriage to proclaim the gospel. Our children are the first audience impacted. God wants our children to see our marriages, behold the beauty of the gospel, and be irresistibly attracted.
~ William P. Farley
Police Commit The Worst Criminal Activities Than The Very People They've Locked Up. Biggest Corrupt & Racist Institution.
~ Witness
They decided that come the fall of 1963, Gram would be packed off as a full-time boarding student to the same institution he'd attended years earlier, the Bolles School in Jacksonville.
~ David N. Meyer
The thing about Markham that keeps it off my radar is that it pretty much doesn't have a single team that I can bet on, or against. I'm not saying that reflects negatively on Markham as an institution; it is known for turning out leaders in fields as diverse as the sciences, math, engineering, and the arts. That's all well and good, but it doesn't get you into a bowl game.
~ David Rosenfelt
Beyond the edge of town, past tar-covered poor houses and a low hill bare except for fallen electric poles, was the institution and it sent its delicate and isolated buildings trembling over the gravel and cinder floor of the valley.
~ David Shields
History suggests that a cult graduates into a church if it outlives its founders.
~ David Thibodeau
Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.
~ William Irwin Thompson
see marriage as a man must, a good, sensible workaday institution; but awfully curbing to one's liberty. Somehow, after you're married forever, life has lost its feeling of adventure. There aren't any romantic possibilities waiting to surprise you around each corner.
~ Jean Webster
Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.
~ Jeff Sessions
an institution is where they put Aunt Maggy when she began collecting Wheaties in a stamp album.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
A wedding is a celebration of marriage, of an institution ordained by God at the creation of man, to be entered into with solemnity as well as with joy.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
If there is one word, by the way, that triggers all the inherent terrors I have ever felt about the institution of marriage, it is coverture. This is exactly what the dancer Isadora Duncan was talking about when she wrote that "any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it deserves all the consequences.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
This isn't fiction, the man says. This is the Post Office.
~ Ali Smith
We loved each other and sometimes we loved other people, but we had no respect for the institution of marriage.
~ Alice Becker-Ho