Social Institution Quotes

#1. I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isn't true.

Andy Rooney

#2. The social institution of marriage is first and foremost a covenant relationship in which a man and a woman pledge themselves to each other for a lifetime partnership. In the biblical account of creation, God's expressed

Gary Chapman

#3. Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service.

Robert L. Payton

#4. A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.

Karl Kraus

#5. Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word water is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

Alan W. Watts

#6. The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#7. He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family
the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

August Strindberg

#8. Parsons argued that medicine was a social institution that regulated social deviance through the provision of medical diagnoses for nonconforming behavior. Medicine was, in this understanding, engaged in social control.

Sheila Jeffreys

#9. I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

Mitt Romney

#10. African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism.

Laurence M. Keitt

#11. I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.

John Gierach

#12. Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

David Hume

#13. Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather
it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

John F. Kennedy

#14. The fashion look of teens and twentysomethings -once so cutting edge- is now, like most of the music played on the radio, a matter of routine. Safe, tired, everywhere.

Phil Strongman

#15. I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I tried to do news, writing and reporting that had social, political and racial content and context.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#16. The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.

John Quincy Adams

#17. Cloud is just emerging, but it's high growth.

Satya Nadella

#18. Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

George Bernard Shaw

#19. For Oakley, I'm basically a media vehicle for them to promote the product. For me, it's both, I get a salary from them, but I also get great products so it just kind of works, continues on.

Craig Kelly

#20. Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.

Steve Guttenberg

#21. We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.

Thomas Szasz

#22. I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.

Vicki Baum

#23. Apart from the social insects, no other species has been clever enough to invent war It is an institution optimally configured to benefit the alphas

Carl Sagan

#24. Bankruptcy - a peculiar institution that enabled an individual, who had failed in competitive industry, to forego paying his debts. The effect was to ameliorate the too savage conditions of the fang-and-claw social struggle.

Jack London

#25. Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

David Vitter

#26. Family ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

August Strindberg

#27. Smarter people tend to think more like economists

Steven Pinker

#28. And he sees that what he is talking about can never really be accepted here because to see it one has to be free from social authority and this is an institution of social authority.

Robert M. Pirsig

#29. We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.

Ingmar Bergman

#30. Because of England's lack of social mobility, unless they make truly heroic efforts, writers who are privately educated and then go on to Oxbridge or an institution like the BBC will generally embarrass themselves when they attempt to have a go at working- or lower middle-class characters.

Adrian McKinty

#31. Pluto's warm-up is a reminder that no matter where you are climate happens. It always has, it always will - with or without SUVs. And it should remind us to continue taking with an ever-increasing grain of salt these claims that your car acts as a weather machine.

Chris Horner

#32. In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

Dean Koontz

#33. Aren't you going to answer it?" Lopez asked.
"I'm afraid it's my mother," I said.
"She calls on Sundays?"
"No, she calls whenever things are going badly.

Laura Resnick

#34. The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve.

Terence McKenna

#35. YOUR BRAIN IS YOUR BITCH

Jen Sincero

#36. It's ridiculous to insinuate that the social recognition of homosexual civil unions damages families or the institution of marriage.

Jens Spahn

#37. He should never have let himself be drawn into this, but the singer said that love can make a fool of any man.

George R R Martin

#38. I've had plenty to worry about one time or other. I'm through worrying.

Ernest Hemingway,