“May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.” MayChildrenCountryCausesEnjoyUnitedGenerationsThousandBenefitsOur ChildrenInstitutionsGloriousRejoice Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for the benefit of material security in spite of occasional twinges of conscience and moral protests. The result has been that today much of organized religion is materialistically solvent but spiritually bankrupt.” PeopleHas BeensMadeTodayReligionResultsMoralSecurityMaterialsCivilizationBenefitsConscienceInstitutionsSurrenderCompromiseOrganizedSpiteProtestOccasionalAdjustmentMaterialisticOrganized Religion Author:Saul Alinsky
“A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.” BenefitsInstitutionsRingsBullsSpaniards Book:Three Men on the Bummel Source: Three Men on the Bummel
“Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.” SpiritualEvilResultsBenefitsInstitutionsMatureSpiritual LifePreachingExceed Book:Power Through Prayer Source: Power Through Prayer
“I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.” ThinkingImportantLawSocialMoralBehaviorBenefitsInstitutionsSocial InstitutionsMoral BehaviorMoral Education Author:Richard Dawkins
“Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the US for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders. The sack of the United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers, but the truth is the Fed has usurped the government. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensMadeStatesGovernmentUnitedMoneyEffortBreakUnited StatesRichCrimeTruth IsBenefitsEconomicsRelationInstitutionsCreditFedsReservesBankingTaxationPreyMonopolyFederal ReservePredatoryLendersForeign RelationsSwindlersMoney Lenders Author:Louis Thomas McFadden
“Marriage is under attack from so many different areas. There should be benefits associated with married people. Life is unfair. Maybe you won't find the right person and you won't end up getting married. Oh, well, life is unfair. But married people, because of their capacity to have children, even if they're not going to end up having children, even if they're unable to bear children, marriage is an institution that is absolutely central to civilization.” PeopleIfsShouldWellsChildrenPersonsDifferentEndsLife IsBearsCivilizationBenefitsMarriedAreasCapacityInstitutionsUnfairGetting MarriedRight PersonHaving ChildrenOh WellLife Is Unfair Author:Ann Coulter
“The capitalist workplace is one of the most profoundly undemocratic institutions on the face of the Earth. Workers have no say over decisions affecting them. If workers sat on the board of directors of democratically operated self-managed enterprises, they wouldn't vote for the wildly unequal distribution of profits to benefit a few and for cutbacks for the many.” IfsSelfEarthFacesDecisionDirectorsBenefitsCapitalismEconomicsVoteManagementInstitutionsWorkersProfitInequalityBoardsSatEnterpriseVotingCapitalistWorkplaceDistributionBoard Of DirectorsCutbacks Author:Richard D. Wolff
“There was a time traditionally - say, GM in the 1950s - it was trying to develop a consumer base that would be loyal and lasting and they were thinking in terms of an institution that would remain and grow and thrive in the society. By now, a lot of the investment firms - bankers, hedge funds - are perfectly happy to destroy what they're in and come out with huge, tremendous benefits. That's a new stage of capitalism.” ThinkingTryingWould BeGrowsTermStageHugeBenefitsCapitalismInstitutionsInvestmentConsumersFirmThriveFundLastingLoyalBankersHedge Fund Author:Noam Chomsky
“After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's the only way we're going to survive. And now it's like we're undoing these very fragile institutions that were built after the First and Second World Wars that were about nations working on a kind of global diplomacy for our mutual benefit. And we're undoing them at such rapid-fire pace.” WorldWayFirstsKindWarTogetherFormNationsFireBenefitsBuiltInstitutionsLeagueWar Of The WorldsWorking TogetherMutualPaceFragileWorld War IDiplomacyRapidsSecond World WarUndoingFirst World WarLeague Of NationsMutual Benefit Author:Zoe Leonard
“The problem is not the sentiment, it's the execution. When a company makes a mistake, the individual benefits because they've learned how NOT to do something while the institution had to pay for the mistake.” ProblemIndividualPayMistakeCompanyBenefitsInstitutionsSentimentsExecution Author:Lewis Schiff
“We do need great change in Burma. We are trying to build a new society, a society where basic human rights are respected, and where our people enjoy all the benefits of democratic institutions.” PeopleNeedsTryingHumansEnjoyRightsBenefitsInstitutionsDemocraticHuman RightsGreat ChangeBurmaBasic Human Rights Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. Yet it is also very important to note that religion is a link between Allah and the individual believer. The brokerage of the pious cannot be permitted. Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight. Know that whatever conforms to reason, logic, and the advantages and needs of our people conforms equally to Islam. If our religion did not conform to reason and logic, it would not be the perfect religion, the final religion.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsImportantReasonUseFightingIndividualNationsPerfectSituationBenefitsAdvantageLogicInstitutionsNotesIslamFinalsBelieverLinksConformFooledPiousReason And Logic Author:Mustafa Kemal Ataturk