One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
Bryant H. McGill

Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.
Phil Donahue

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Michel Foucault

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
Anatoly Chubais

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.
Kelly Millar

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
Learned Hand

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.
Tim Holden

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
Anita Roddick

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.
Jacques Derrida

The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.
Don Sherwood

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
Gloria Steinem

The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.
Ivor Novello

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

The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.
Charles Eastman

The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.
Joseph Lancaster

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
Horatio Alger

The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
Jeff Miller

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
George Santayana

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.
Jonathan Mayhew

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
Lee Iacocca