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Quotes About Institution

Lucia began to write with the new pen on a green suitcase afternoons after tea hour during the loneliest hours in an institution of the type of Barnaderg Bay, between tea and bed—the dark and gloomy, often wet hours of the day for half the year, and the poignantly light and melancholy, also often wet hours of the day during the second half of the year.
~ Alison Leslie Gold
It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.
~ Alveda King
Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.
~ Timothy Murphy
In marriage, a woman becomes the weaker sex, even if her husband doesn't want her to be. This happens because of the way society has built the institution.
~ Kalki Koechlin
Basically all the art we know in history books, the business model for that art was not unit sales. It was patronage. It was a person who made great stuff. And then an institution, a religious institution, a government, a wealthy individual, would pay that person to go make more of that.
~ Jack Conte
When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own cultural peculiarities, including obscurity for its own sake. You give those guys a website for a banking institution and they screw it up, because they are designing for themselves.
~ Brenda Laurel
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
~ Anthony Holden
Just because marriage didn't work for us doesn't mean we don't believe in the institution. Just because our own marital track records are mixed doesn't mean our hearts don't lift at the sight of our daughters' Tiffany-blue wedding invitations.
~ Sandra Tsing Loh
The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress of middle-class and upper-middle-class African Americans, creates the illusion of great progress.
~ Michelle Alexander
The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.
~ Bernie Sanders
Where I know my strengths lie, for me, is establishing systems and protocols, finding solutions, and trying to push for results. The Senate is a great institution, but for me, it's not the role that best suits those needs.
~ Stacey Abrams
MoMA is one of the world's great cultural institutions with one of the world's premier Boards and Museum leadership. It is my distinct pleasure to work with such a talented and highly qualified group. I salute Bob Menschel for the high bar he has set and follow him in the position of Chairman with all the respect he has earned.
~ Jerry Speyer
It all rather reminds me of a remark once made to me by Alan Watts: The great error of academic historians is the belief that the Roman Empire 'fell.' It never 'fell.' It still controls the Western world through the Vatican and the Mafia.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.
~ Susan Faludi
The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.
~ R.J. Rushdoony
Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.
~ Bernard Katz
Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.
~ Riane Eisler
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
~ Richard Rohr
It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.
~ Richard Mentor Johnson
Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.
~ Carl Sagan
If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.
~ Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Religion is the product of organizations called churches
~ Sunday Adelaja
This post of President is a Constitutional post. It is the duty of everyone, all citizens to see that they respect the post... the institution of President.
~ Pratibha Patil