Cease Quote by Hannah Arendt

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

— Vladimir Lenin

every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Therefore all…

— Hannah Arendt

The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it, and to…

— John Adams

I believe that political power exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions which look as if they have nothing in…

— Michel Foucault

Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“One lesson to be derived from the study of institutional facts is this: everything we value in civilization requires the creation and maintenance of…

— John Rogers Searle

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

— Charles de Secondat

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“The political institutions of a society are a key determinant of the outcome of this game. They are the rules that govern incentives in…

— Daron Acemoğlu

The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of…

— Babatunde Fashola

“...what we are looking for is the appearance of political units persisting in time and fixed in space, the development of permanent, impersonal institutions,…

— Joseph Reese Strayer

Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.

— Kenneth Frazier