Institutions Quotes - Page 18

• All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To integrate our human activities within this context is our way into the future.

  Thomas Berry

  Self, Community, Earth

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• A considerable breakdown in my health has scared me from the anxieties, responsibilities and excitement of my profession; whether temporarily or permanently cannot yet be determined but, whatever may be the issue, be assured that nothing was better calculated to soothe me than the kind interest manifested by the pupils of Guy's Hospital during the many trying years devoted to that institution.

  Thomas Addison

  Responsibility, Years, Issues

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• Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world was created in six 24-hour days. And he repeated this to make an impression upon us. In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament. Did he take them literally? He paused and said, 'Well, I believe slavery is a much-maligned institution. If we had slavery today, we would not have this welfare mess.'

  Adrian Rogers

  Believe, Slavery Today, Vines

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• The peoples are not awake...[There are dangers] which will render a world organization impossible.
  I foresee the renewal of...the secret bargaining behind closed doors. Peoples will be as before,
  the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.
  International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries,
  established by the peoples and for the peoples.

  Henri La Fontaine

  Country, Sheep, Doors

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• When people criticize me for not having any respect for existing structures and institutions, I protest. I say I give institutions and structures and traditions all the respect that I think they deserve. That's usually mighty little, but there are things that I do respect. They have to earn that respect. They have to earn it by serving people. They don't earn it just by age or legality or tradition.

  Myles Horton

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.

  Michelle Alexander

  Race, Jim Crow Laws, Groups

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.13, The New Press

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• Institutions are becoming naked, and if you're going to be naked … fitness is no longer optional. If you're going to be naked, you better get buff.

  Don Tapscott

  Naked, Becoming, Optional

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• Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge and practice circulate and take hold. This way of understanding the dispersion of power helps us realize that power is not simply about certain individuals being targeted for death or exclusion by a ruler, but instead about the creation of norms that distribute vulnerability and security.

  Dean Spade

  Practice, Understanding, Matter

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• To my knowledge there are no good records that have been built by institutions run by committee. In almost all cases the great records are the product of individuals, perhaps working together, but always within a clearly defined framework. Their names are on the door and they are quite visible to the investing public. In reality outstanding records are made by dictators, hopefully benevolent, but nonetheless dictators.

  Peter Cundill

  Running, Reality, Doors

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• Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Thinking, Purpose

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.230

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• Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of managers give orders, everyone follows orders..... At the very bottom of command, if you are lucky you can rent yourself to it and get a job , and if you are sufficiently propagandized you may even buy some of the junk they produce and so on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jobs, Order, Giving

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• A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. A decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized.

  Noam Chomsky

  Creative, Needs, Arbitrary

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2013). “The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, p.35, The New Press

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• To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race.

  George Washington

  Race, Design, May

  George Washington (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.201

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• From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.

  Carl Jung

  Psychology, Theatre, Viewpoints

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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

  Clarence Darrow

  Freedom, Law, Humans

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, University of Chicago Press

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• The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is
  ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas
  engender social institutions, political changes, technologi-
  cal methods of production, and all that is called economic
  conditions.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Ideas, Political

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• It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

  Oscar Wilde

  Order, Evil, Use

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1034, GENERAL PRESS

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• Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.

  Hugh Mackay

  Meaningful, People, Church

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• The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

  Ashley Montagu

  Systematic, Mental Illness, Units

  "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson",

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• Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures.

  DeWitt Wallace

  Giving Money, Waste, Form

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• If we believe in the rebirth of our civilization... then clearly this renaissance must begin in the chambers of our own hearts... We cannot wait for society to change, or for our institutions to be renewed. We, as individuals, must assume responsibility for our own personal transformation.

  Georg Feuerstein

  Believe, Heart, Responsibility

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• The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Church, Hunger And Thirst

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• The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.

  Peter Drucker

  Responsibility, Risk, Firsts

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Two, Everyday, Saint

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2179, Manonmani Publishers

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• The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Creating, Growth, Movement

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