You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.
Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.
I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization. . . No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two sexes should be united, both as teachers and pupils, in the same institution seems very desirable, but rarely in early life by a method that removes them from parental watch and care, and the protecting influences of a home.
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility
Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.
The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
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.
Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but it makes things easier.
I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.
Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
Once you've been in a mental institution, people are going to look at you funny.
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.
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.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.
It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.