Human Institutions Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people.…
— David Korten
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Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other human institutions have…
— William A. Connelly
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How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and…
— James Monroe
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The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human…
— Walt Whitman
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I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
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As a race, the African is inferior to the white man. Subordination to the white man is his normal condition. He is not his equal…
— Alexander H. Stephens
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The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to earn their right…
— Richard Holloway
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Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.…
— Carl Jung
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The faults of advertising are only those common to all human institutions. If advertising speaks to a thousand in order to influence one, so does…
— Bruce Barton
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We are persons whose bodies can be objectively studied according to the impersonal laws of physics but whose minds are subjectively experienced in ways science…
— B. Alan Wallace
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Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union…
— Mike Rounds
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To understand my feelings — and my conception of the role of Secretary General — the nature of my religious and cultural background must first…
— U Thant
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Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human institutions upon social…
— John Quincy Adams
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Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
— Thorstein Veblen
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We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
— Philip Yancey
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There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.
— James Monroe
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The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature.
— Peter Senge
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Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land…
— Donella Meadows
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Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.
— Mitch Kapor
Who Wrote These Human Institutions Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 Human Institutions Quotes as follows: