Human Institutions Quotes

21 quotes by 20 authors

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
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
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
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
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
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
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
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
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
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
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
To understand my feelings â€” and my conception of the role of Secretary General â€” the nature of my religious and cultural background must first… — U Thant
Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions. — George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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