Rational Quote by George Santayana

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

— Stephen Herbits

I think institutions that are bureaucratic often try to squeeze from the top down, and they don't have good results on the ground level.

— Bill Pullman

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

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

Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy,…

— Audre Lorde

“Institutions have processes favoring efficiency over loss, and process over people.”

— Bryant McGill

My own view is that institutions are a glory, and for all their imperfections, something really to be proud of. It is true that…

— Cass Sunstein

People make institutions, not vice versa.

— Shere Hite

“Democratic institutions awaken and foster a passion for equality which they can never entirely satisfy. This complete equality eludes the grasp of the people…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.”

— George Will

One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and…

— Mary Barnett Gilson