#institution

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#defeat #destroy #entire #everyone #families

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better. ↗

— Maria Cantwell

#change #democracy #dr #everyday #everyday people

Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

#against #attack #beautiful #been #blessing

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#artistic #atlantic #between #central #economic

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#institutions #people #presuppose #religious #religious people

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#along #average #beings #composed #geniuses

Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#doing #embarrassing #harm #individual #institutions

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television. ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#amazing #because #being #example #good

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change. ↗

— Frederick M. Vinson

#caused #change #god #his #institutions

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#american people #critical #financial #institutions #just