Quotes about institutions




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"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."

Bagehot, Walter on institutions    Share


"If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not."

Baldwin, James on institutions    Share

"What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!"

Blake, William on institutions    Share

"Institutions -- government, churches, industries, and the like -- have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction."

Cooley, Charles Horton on institutions    Share

"An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on institutions    Share

"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on institutions    Share

"Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival."

Inge, Dean William R. on institutions    Share

"Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country."

Lapham, Lewis H. on institutions    Share

"Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions."

Mills, C. Wright on institutions    Share

"What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?"

Quinet, Edgar on institutions    Share

"The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others."

Santayana, George on institutions    Share

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"Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society."

Thoreau, Henry David on institutions    Share

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