Social Institutions Quotes - Page 2

• I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Law, Moral Behavior

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• We must reach out to villages even in scorching heat with temperature upto 44 C. We must ensure that no girl child remains illiterate. I request all the social institutions and the media world to create a joyous environment for education in the month of June (when schools re-open), an environment to encourage children to go to school. We will derive the satisfaction of having done a social good.

  Narendra Modi

  Girl, Education, Children

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• Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Expectations, Needs, Pandas

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• A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.

  Karl Kraus

  Jealousy, Sex, Men

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home what communism did to the Russian economy, and most of the ruin is irreversible.  By defining relations between men and women in terms of power and competition instead of reciprocity and cooperation, the movement tore apart the most basic and fragile contract in human society, the unit from which all other social institutions draw their strength.

  Ruth Wisse

  Home, Men, America

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• I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

  George Meyer

  Tradition, Social, Institutions

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• The state should never have instituted and enforced legal property rights in persons, and should not have been in the business of returning runaway slaves to their "rightful owners." The whole institution of property in human beings was an unjust social institution and should not have been maintained in existence. It is this sort of thought that I'm appealing to at the supranational level.

  Thomas Pogge

  Rights, Levels, Unjust

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Corporations, Economic, Social

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• I want to always move forward with everything I am doing. So, I do the radio show, speak at universities and other social institutions all around the world, appear on TV, and continue to create music all in the hope to keep the struggle alive.

  Chuck D

  Struggle, Moving, Alive

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.

  Joseph Sobran

  Loyalty, Mean, Independence

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• We have to find a way of understanding how one category of sex can be "assigned" from both and another sense of sex can lead us to resist and reject that sex assignment. How do we understand that second sense of sex? It is not the same as the first - it is not an assignment that others give us. But maybe it is an assignment we give ourselves? If so, do we not need a world of others, linguistic practices, social institutions, and political imaginaries in order to move forward to claim precisely those categories we require, and to reject those that work against us?

  Judith Butler

  Sex, Moving, Order

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved-that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Silly, Men, Views

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, What Matters, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.81, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

  Edward Abbey

  Human Nature, Social, Institutions

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

  Edward Abbey

  People, Church, Students

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices... Those definitions... are about the oppression and exploitation of women by men.

  Marilyn Frye

  Animal, Men, Heterosexuality Is

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• The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms

  Christopher Dawson

  Europe, Ideas, Political

  Christopher Dawson (1961). “The Crisis of Western Education”, New York : Sheed and Ward

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• Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

  John Rawls

  Law, Justice, Unjust

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Firsts, Virtue

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.

  Tony Abbott

  School, Thinking, Reform

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.

  Andy Rooney

  Atheist, Wish, Hoaxes

  Andy Rooney (2009). “Sincerely, Andy Rooney”, p.226, Hachette UK

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• Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Conservative, Language, Initiative

  Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.74, Columbia University Press

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• The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Lying, Flower, Passion

  Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.149, Library of Alexandria

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• To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Political, Needs, Lessons

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• Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets.

  Michael Sandel

  Needs, Want, Limits

  Michael J. Sandel (2009). “Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?”, p.265, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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