Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
“If society asks more of us, and arranges its social institutions appropriately, it will get more.” — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result… — Carl Menger Copy Share Image
Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks… — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
“All collective undertakings require trust. From the games that children play to complex social institutions, humans cannot work together unless they suspend… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in bothscholarly… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world -… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion:… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home… — Ruth Wisse Copy Share Image
We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is intended to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of… — Raphael Lemkin Copy Share Image
We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world? — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I remain a religious agnostic, but, unlike most atheists, I not only am not hostile to traditional religion but consider it a… — Guenter Lewy Copy Share Image
Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The less a person knows about the workings of the social institutions in his society, the more he must trust those who… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I want to always move forward with everything I am doing. So, I do the radio show, speak at universities and other… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
