I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“If society asks more of us, and arranges its social institutions appropriately, it will get more.” — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service. — Robert L. Payton 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
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 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
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human… — Ronald Reagan 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
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
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
What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to… — Ludwig von Mises 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
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The state should never have instituted and enforced legal property rights in persons, and should not have been in the business of… — Thomas Pogge 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
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
As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
“Governments strong enough to protect individuals against the violence of their fellows make possible the evolution of an increasingly complex order of… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
There are many female gods recognized and honored by the tribes and Nations. Femaleness was highly valued, both respected and feared, and… — Paula Gunn Allen 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
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
The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced… — Franz Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
“Modem Socialism developed when profound observers of social life came to see more and more clearly that political constitutions and changes in… — Rudolf Rocker 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
Government has crowded out the role of many social institutions, including the Church, that have been a great force for good in… — Wendy Long 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 just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney 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
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
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