Jose Saramago
Writer
"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
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Institutions
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Statesman, Founder of Republic
"Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive."
Bruce Dickinson
Musician, Author, Pilot
"Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit."
Theresa May
Politician
"I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution; it's one of the most important institutions we have."
Mikhail Bulgakov
Novelist, Playwright
"I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person."
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"Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God."
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"Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions."
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"Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls."
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"A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag."
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"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."
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"Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership."
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"What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?"
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"Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them."
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"Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions."
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"The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family."
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"The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions."
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"Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird."
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"All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members."
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"One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library."
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"In China, we are considering ways of resolving our problems by improving our institutions."
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"My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films."
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"Marriage is a great institution."
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"The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions"
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"The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others."
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"The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival."
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