Social Institutions Quotes
31 Social Institutions quotes by unique 24 authors
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Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.
— Ronald Reagan
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The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving…
— Humphry Davy
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We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning
— Carl Menger
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Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a…
— Ferdinand de Saussure
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Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing
— Henry Mintzberg
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.
— Edward Abbey
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people,…
— Edward Abbey
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Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female…
— Marilyn Frye
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Justice is the first virtue of social institutions,
— John Rawls
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The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the…
— Christopher Dawson
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Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or…
— John Rawls
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I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for…
— Tony Abbott
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The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its…
— Octave Mirbeau
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I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that…
— Andrew Eldritch
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In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called 'social justice'…
— Thomas Sowell
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We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can also model communities…
— Fritjof Capra
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It is intended to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with…
— Raphael Lemkin
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No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us…
— Henry Mintzberg
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There are many female gods recognized and honored by the tribes and Nations. Femaleness was highly valued, both respected and feared, and all social institutions…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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A sustainable human community is designed in such a manner that its ways of life, technologies, and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's…
— Fritjof Capra
Who Wrote These Social Institutions Quotes
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