Quotes about Institutions
Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.
— Hillary Clinton
Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot reinvent our fundamental institutions without going against the created order. Some Christians are bending God's rules to satisfy self. As the fads and trends around us come and go, one person endures: Jesus Christ. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. (Heb. 13:8) He is exalted in the heavens, and the earth is His footstool. from: I Never Thought I'd See the Day
— David Jeremiah
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
— Albert Einstein
Our institutions and our expectations, including our churches, are almost entirely configured to encourage, support, reward, and validate the tasks of the first half of life.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.
— Elbert Hubbard
In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.
— Joe Biden
Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.
— Walter Rauschenbusch
We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
— James Madison
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
— Henry David Thoreau
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
— Benjamin Disraeli
God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.
— Dorothy Day