The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.
We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.
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.
The United Nations is actually a mid-20th century institution and much weaker than it was when it was originally created, because governments themselves are less capable of implementing the kind of promises or programs that they have put forward.
Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along.
I was nonverbal until I was four years old. Back in the 50s, I was the kind of kid they used to just put away in an institution. But then you get the milder autism where there's no speech delay, but they're socially awkward. Those kids were around when I was a child. They were just called geeks and nerds.
I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe that people are going to get rid of good employees for political reasons, that's absurd.
The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.
It's ridiculous to insinuate that the social recognition of homosexual civil unions damages families or the institution of marriage.
Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
Then another thing, now this is mainly for our interest about Tibet, our struggle. Whole struggle depend on within person. For dangerous. Foolish! Not for this only institution or even not only for Buddhist dogma, but before national sort of right, our right. So therefore this struggle must carried by people themselves.
Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.
There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims. It has no temple, nor even a solitary column. There goes a rumor that the earth is inhabited, but the shipwrecked mariner has not seen a footprint on the shore. The hunter has found only fragments of pottery and the monuments of inhabitants.
Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced. . . because these things are unreliable and fleeting.
Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finishes up.
But, gee," the other nurse says, "what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What possible motive. . . ?""You seem to forget, MISS Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.
You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.
The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members.