127 Quotes About Institutions

The institution of marriage is obsolete

In almost every place where we find totems we also find a law against persons of the same totem having sexual relations with one another and consequently against their marrying. This, then, is 'exogamy', an institution related to totemism.

Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s.

Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.

Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.