Quotes About Institutions

Worldly institutions fail because they require power and gold to operate. Power and gold attract wicked and greedy people. Wicked and greedy people are corrupters and betrayers. Therefore, worldly institutions become corrupt and betrayed. ...

They had to take a page from ACT UP, the Weather Underground, the United Freedom Front, and shake these corrupt institutions to their very foundations.

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.

Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.