Institution Quotes - page 3

The institution of marriage is obsolete. (Jane Fonda)
I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution. View quote
Fanny Kemble
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? View quote
H. L. Mencken
Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil. View quote
Maximilien Robespierre
A man's jealousy is a social institution, a woman's prostitution an instinct. View quote
Karl Kraus
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly. View quote
John Pilger
For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated. View quote
Warren Buffett
I think the Mussolinean institution of a third way alternative to comunism is currently still very relevant. View quote
Gianfranco Fini
Justification, in terms of the broadening of freedom, for any particular form of institution of property must be argued in terms of whether the losses caused by the restrictions imposed are greater or less than the gains derived from the elimination of costly conflict. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth)-so that the madman can always be considered the Other, never the Self-mental illness will remain an easily exploitable concept, and Coercive Psychiatry a flourishing institution. View quote
Thomas Szasz
The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace. (Daniel Patrick Moynihan)
Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire. View quote
Edwin Boring
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor. View quote
Rosa Luxemburg
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. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution. View quote
Paul Karl Feyerabend
If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term to every historically determined institution. Then the fact that the British speak English - and not Danish, German, or French - is a barbarous relic too, and every Briton who opposes the substitution of Esperanto for English is no less dogmatic and orthodox than those who do not wax rapturous about the plans for a managed currency. View quote
Ludwig von Mises
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. View quote
Peter Drucker
Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution. View quote
Peter Drucker
Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution. View quote
Peter Drucker
The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it. (Peter Drucker)
The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous. View quote
Voltaire
Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth. View quote
James Dobson
The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government. View quote
Rousas John Rushdoony
In America, we debate everything except capitalism. If there's an institution in your society that's above criticism, you're giving it a free pass to indulge all of its weaknesses and darker tendencies. View quote
Richard D. Wolff