Quotes About Institutions

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.

In the event, what actually happened was that citizens, without paying much attention to government at all, went about creating a national culture for themselves. Long before political parties became effective as national, democratic institutions, Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians were building the nerve system of a national culture.

War strips away the thin veneer applied slap-dash by the institutions of society and shows Man for exactly what he is.

Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, and Brown all began as Christian institutions

The shift of the mentally ill into prisons, from previous treatment in psychiatric institutions (already inadequate in many ways) is just one example of this social care through penal confinement at work in the U.S.A. today.

The appropriate response to precarious people's lives is not more prisons, but the forming of just policies for all and creative socialism in the practice of building new institutions for care and restoration. Attaining those, however, will require building people's movements that take down Lockdown America and free up new imagination and practice for dramatic and feasible socialist futures.

The framers of our Constitution arranged things so that political action would have to be filtered through institutions that require consultation and compromise, and would depend on a system of frequent elections, checks and balances, the autonomy of the civil service, civilian control of the military, the writing of laws and regulations, and their impartial enforcement. And all this would have to be done at three levels of government.

Natural law is superior to, and precedes, political and governmental institutions.

Cicero argues that the source of justice, truth, virtue, etc.—in a word, morality—is natural law. It is permanent and supreme, unalterable by man or his institutions.

Marxism provides a theoretical and institutional framework through which they can project their own limitations and weaknesses onto "the system" and their "oppressors" rather than take responsibility for their own real or perceived plight.

The purpose of art is subversion. Art is telling the world how it's killing you. How its institutions have failed you. In the end, any culture worth damn is made by subversives. Because art is what tells the world it needs to change. Power merely redecorates it.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908

My kind of loyalty was to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

group homes or large residential institutions where many teens live, their caretakers are often poorly paid shift workers; despite the low wages, care in these settings costs taxpayers up to ten times the cost of family foster care. Over time, many teens experience stays in both settings.

They believed that challenging entrenched authority entailed a concerted attempt to alter the institutions and policy-making apparatus that had been usurped by a self-serving power elite;

Whenever land is bought and sold, three stakeholders automatically vie for a cut from the revenue that can be had from land: the community, the property owner, and the institutions that finance property ownership. With land-use rights, the revenue from land value increases is primarily recycled back to the community rather than captured by banks and property owners.