Quotes About Institutions

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.

The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.

The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't trust the media.

People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

I think the philosophy in our public schools, and many other institutions today, is that a dose of God is more hazardous to your health than a dose of herpes or drugs.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.