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Famous quotes containing the word institution:

“No institution will be better than the institutor.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.”
—Daniel Patrick Moynihan (20th century)

“The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.”
—Paul Johnson (b. 1928)