Top 265 Institution Quotes

An institution of higher education is a partnership among students and alumni, faculty and administrators, donors and trustees, neighborhoods and more, to build a community – and a culture.
Ben Sasse
Preaching is God’s great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Public, noncommercial broadcasting is also giving kids social-emotional skills like persistence and self-control that are fundamental to success in school, not to mention in the military, the institution where I spent most of my career.
Stanley A. McChrystal
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its de

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo
Collaboration is important not just because it’s a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.
Don Tapscott
Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student’s life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable.
Derek Bok
When I was commissioned in the Air Force, I was committed to the institution for a career.
James Clapper
Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.
Daniel H. Hill
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.
Pratibha Patil
Obviously, the institution of marriage in America has utterly collapsed.
Paul Singer
Speaking French is good for me and also a mark of respect for the PSG institution.
Thomas Tuchel
I write what I call precinct drama, and I tend to write things set in the workplace. Having an institution which gives a workplace its distinctive identity is really important to creating something which feels different.
Jed Mercurio
Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue’s time has come and we need to move forward.
Kay Hagan
I walk out of my apartment, and St. Vincent’s is standing there like a ghost ship. That was the ground zero of AIDS in New York: a conservative institution that quickly adapted to its unconventional patients and made heroic efforts to try and save them.
John Cameron Mitchell
The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.
John Quincy Adams
The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
Ian Caldwell
Mitch McConnell has, as much as anyone, done great damage to the United States Senate as an institution that was once known as the world’s greatest deliberative body.
Steve Schmidt
This country, of course, needs fundamental reform of our financial regulatory system, as I, and many other financial institution executives, have publicly advocated for a considerable period.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Heterosexuals were the upstarts who turned marriage into a voluntary love relationship rather than a mandatory economic and political institution.
Stephanie Coontz
I am honored to serve on the Board of Visitors for Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Being the first board member from Latin America, I hope to provide insight into the economical, social and political issues facing the region, and continue to grow and strengthen this prestigious institution.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego
Think of the phrase ‘dining institution’ as a badge of honour. One that is earned after many years, and many more hearts won.
Melissa Leong
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
Leland Stanford
I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.
Mario Monti
I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.
Kyle Chandler
I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.
Jose Manuel Barroso
I’m a big fan of Purdue as an institution and in its role of educating the next-generation workforce.
J. D. Vance
Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that’s what? Children. Monogamous relationships.
Rick Santorum
Putin probably, almost certainly, thinks that one of the great disasters of the 20th century was the demise of the Soviet Union. It’s very obvious that he’s trying to work its way back and maintain something similar to that sort of institution.
Alan Greenspan
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.
Peter Drucker
There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.
David Bowie
The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in America, because we have no such institution, unfortunately adhere to the president.
Mark Helprin
I think Pique, apart from the odd personal remark, has never had a bad opinion about any of my teammates at Real Madrid, but obviously, when he attacks Real Madrid, our club, and our institution, it kind of tarnishes all of the rest of what he says.
Sergio Ramos
I believe good corporate governance is critical in enhancing competitiveness and creating industry – leading profitable growth and superior returns for every stakeholder of the institution.
Shiv Nadar
An institution is beyond any individual. It breathes and lives on its own and always will.
Nita Ambani
When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anym

When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution.
Michel Martelly
When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
Abraham Lincoln
I still vividly remember the moment I let go of an embrace with my daughter on her college campus – that, in her opinion, probably lasted far too long. I left the most precious thing in my life in the care of an institution, and that’s a very hard thing to do.
Valerie Jarrett
There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.
Douglas Adams
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
Christopher Lasch
Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant.
Peter Landesman
‘Wicked Nights’ is the story of Zacharel, the new leader of the Army of Disgrace – heavenly warriors in danger of falling from grace – and Annabelle, a human who has spent the last four years locked in an institution for the criminally insane.
Gena Showalter
My first few films were institutional comedies, and you’re on pretty safe ground when you’re dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.
Harold Ramis
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.
Peter Drucker
When it comes to crime, college campuses act as if they are sovereign nations, inside which secret bodies can adjudicate criminal wrongdoing to protect the reputation of the institution and the illusion that it is a safe place to send your kids.
S.E. Cupp
Every institution has its own dignity, and if people don’t respect the dignity of those institutions, it affects the whole system.
Rajnath Singh
When I first thought about the military – and this goes all the way back to ‘Glory’ – I learned really quickly that it isn’t a monolith. It is really an institution made up of some people with very different personalities and people of different backgrounds.
Edward Zwick
I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students’ potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock to this institution. It will own the Bose Corporation and be funded by the Bose Corporation.
Amar Bose
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it’s broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
Carl Bernstein
I believe in the institution of marriage and it’s like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.
Stephen Breyer
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo