language is precisely designed to be a self-identifying…

“institutional facts in general require language because the language is partly constitutive of the facts. But”

— John Rogers Searle

“One lesson to be derived from the study of institutional facts is this: everything we value in civilization requires the creation and maintenance of…

— John Rogers Searle

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you…

— Amy Ray

The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.

— Larry Brilliant

“Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.”

— Niall Ferguson

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

— Gary Hamel

Phoenix and Las Vegas have grim long-term prospects. On top of oil-and-gas problems, they will have terrible problems with water and the ability to…

— James Howard Kunstler

The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types.

— George Weigel

When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply outside of it because of their race, it…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with…

— Tim Curry

The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged…

— Ivan Krastev

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and…

— Mark Rothko

“Institutional changes, instead of following the path of a guided arrow, head in different and often conflicting directions: a profitable operating unit is suddenly…

— Richard Sennett

Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to…

— Thomas Szasz

Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.

— Marianne Williamson