Institutions Quotes - Page 20

• A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has a mind, but no institutions, no organizations, no coherent unity, no history, no traditions.

  Josiah Royce

  Organization, Community, Mind

  Josiah Royce, John Edwin Smith (1988). “Josiah Royce: Selected Writings”, p.272, Paulist Press

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• I remember every player-every single one-who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually find on a roadside crew, "or in a correctional institution," as my friend Wendy Larry jokes. But to us the color is a flag of pride, because it identifies us as Lady Vols and therefore as women of an unmistakable type. Fighters. I remember how many of them fought for a better life for themselves. I just met them halfway.

  Pat Summitt

  Hate, Pride, Player

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• But, gee," the other nurse says, "what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What possible motive...?""You seem to forget, MISS Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.

  Ken Kesey

  Men, Nurse, Missing

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.13, Hamilton Books

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• There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Law, Common Sense

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.101, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• We are persons whose bodies can be objectively studied according to the impersonal laws of physics but whose minds are subjectively experienced in ways science has not yet been able to fathom. In short, by radically seperating science from religion, we are not merely segregating two human institutions; we are fragmenting ourselves as individuals and as a society in ways that lead to deep, unresolved conflicts in terms of our view of the world, our values, and our way of life.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Views, Law, Two

  B. Alan Wallace (2004). “The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science of Consciousness”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes.

  George Washington

  Blessed, Purpose, May

  George Washington, Dorothy Twohig, William Wright Abbot (1987). “The Papers of George Washington: April-June 1789”

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• I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some free information that will enrich your life. Read it on your own time. I trust that you will bring it back when you are finished.' It might be the most civilized, forward-thinking institution in America. Perhaps the only one, in fact.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Thinking, America, Library

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• There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Envy, Causes, Chance

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.116

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• Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world - the world of stars and waters, clouds, mountains and living organisms. There is such a thing as rhythm - rhythm of tides, rhythm of biological processes... There is rhythm and there is motion. Time is a way of measuring motion.

  Alan Watts

  Stars, Reality, Clouds

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• One of my favorite fantasies is that next Sunday not one single woman, in any country of the world, will go to church. If women simply stop giving our time and energy to the institutions that oppress, they would have to cease to do so.

  Sonia Johnson

  Country, Sunday, Countries Of The World

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• There are many female gods recognized and honored by the tribes and Nations. Femaleness was highly valued, both respected and feared, and all social institutions reflected this attitude. Even modern sayings, such as the Cheyenne statement that a people is not conquered until the hearts of the women are on the ground, express the Indians understanding that without the power of woman the people will not live, but with it, they will endure and prosper.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Inspiring, Attitude, Heart

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.172, Open Road Media

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• A sustainable human community is designed in such a manner that its ways of life, technologies, and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.

  Fritjof Capra

  Technology, Support, Community

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• The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become.

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Heart, Ideas, Long

  Kwame Anthony Appiah (2015). “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers”, p.8, Penguin UK

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• Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Cogs, Arbitrary

  Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.428, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.

  Peter Drucker

  Knowledge Workers, Century, Assets

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.116, Routledge

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• Knowledge is information that changes something
  or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an
  individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.

  Peter Drucker

  Different, Information, Becoming

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• Michigan State is always welcome at Ann Arbor. Your teams in all the various branches of athletics are more frequent visitors here than those of any other institution. This is as it should be, for not two universities are closer together in every way than Michigan State and Michigan.

  Fielding H. Yost

  Sports, Team, Two

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• When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our stewardship becomes the unleashing of our God-given gifts, talents, and passions.

  Erwin McManus

  Passion, Volunteer, People

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2011). “Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within”, p.102, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Support, Poverty

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• Institutions too often focus their energy preserving the problem to which they are a solution than to innovate their way to success.

  Josh Linkner

  Focus, Energy, Way

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2011

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• Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

  Russell Means

  Hollywood, Racist, World

  "Indian Activist, Actor Russel Means Dies". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 22, 2012.

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• Only the Communist Party, as the institution that brings together the revolutionary vanguard and will always guarantee the unity of Cubans, can be the worthy heir of the trust deposited by the people in their leader.

  Raul Castro

  Party, People, Leader

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• Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of
  what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.

  Marianne Williamson

  Religious, Giving, Religion

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• The founders of the great world religions, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu, Mohammed, all seem to have striven for a worldwide brotherhood of man; but none of them could develop institutions which would include the enemy, the unbeliever.

  Geoffrey Gorer

  Jesus, Men, World Religions

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• Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Essence

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