Accustomed Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

The more we demand that institutions allow us to be who we are, the more they're going to have to.

— Stephen Herbits

Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from…

— David Brooks

Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they…

— Noam Chomsky

“Institutional structures are legitimate insofar as they enhance the opportunity to freely inquire and create, out of inner need; otherwise, they are not.”

— Noam Chomsky

People make institutions, not vice versa.

— Shere Hite

Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.

— Kenneth Frazier

Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.

— Ram Dass

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

— Noam Chomsky

If institutions don't grow, they... well, I don't know what happens to them, because they always grow. I suppose the point is that we…

— Michael Wolff

I'm a big believer in institutions.

— Kenneth Frazier

Institutions do live on their history.

— Bob Hawke

One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us…

— David Frum