Institutions Quotes

It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules...

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

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental...

Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linkin...

When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,and when we escape like squirrels turning in thecage...

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

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from bei...

As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy withwhich we all begin as chi...

Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Anima...

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

Common sense and every material reality insisted upon the unification of human life throughout the p...

She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a co...

And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, ...

Once the state starts providing, it feels free to hand out the rules, too!" Larch blurted hastily. ....

Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, a...

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the chur...

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

What if good institutions were in fact the product of good intentions? What if the cynicism that is ...

An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead inst...

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions an...

And why, she began to ask, did she rage against individuals? Not individuals but institutions are th...

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

Learning how to balance the needs of individuals with the no-less-real needs of an institution was a...

Feminism is a tremendously underestimated force, viewed in the present context primarily as a woman'...