Freedom Quote by Charles Horton Cooley

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution

— Anonymous

When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and…

— Emma Goldman

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

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a…

— Noam Chomsky

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

— Ibn Khaldun

“Originally, governments had very limited functions. Their purpose was simply to “preserve and protect.” Then someone added “provide.” When governments began to be the…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private…

— John Adams

Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community... when any government shall…

— George Mason

The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their…

— Alexander Hamilton

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

— Leo Tolstoy

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

— Chuck Hagel

To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted to those…

— Henry George