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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 · Institutions · 0 fans >>
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"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 · Institutions · 0 fans >>
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"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 · Institutions · 0 fans >>
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"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 · Institutions · 0 fans >>
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"An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo · Institutions · 1 fans >>
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"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."

Galbraith, John Kenneth · Institutions · 0 fans >>
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"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. · Institutions · 0 fans >>
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"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. · Institutions · 1 fans >>
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"Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him."

Lawrence, D. H. · Institutions · 0 fans >>
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"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 · Institutions · 0 fans >>
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