Institutions Quotes

And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, which ones did he break, or replace--and with what confidence?

~ John Irving

Learning how to balance the needs of individuals with the no-less-real needs of an institution was an important lesson. It's fine to be on the side of the little guy, but he too will ultimately suffer if the health and concerns of the greater body he belongs to are neglected.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary consequence, with moral symbols, sacred emblems, or legal formulae which are widely believed and deeply internalized. These central conceptions may refer to a god or gods, the 'votes of the majority,' the 'will of the people,' the 'aristocracy of talents or wealth,' to the 'divine right of kings' or to the alleged extraordinary endowment of the person of the ruler himself.

~ C. Wright Mills

Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The ideal committee is one with me as chairman and two other members in bed with flu.

~ Lord Milverton

If Moses had been a committee the Israelites would still be in Egypt.

~ J. B. Hughes

A committee of one gets things done.

~ Joe Ryan

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

~ Anonymous

If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

~ Justice Arthur Goldberg

An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

~ Groucho Marx

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

~ V. S. Pritchett

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.

~ Richard Harkness

No grand idea was ever born in a conference but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

~ Slobodan Milosevic