Flourishing Quote by Henry David Thoreau

When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented and diluted…

— M. Scott Peck

The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive…

— Judith Ellen Foster

I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually…

— Bruce Sterling

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to…

— Lewis Mumford

An institution is beyond any individual. It breathes and lives on its own and always will.

— Nita Ambani

“When we recognize how vital it is to create and nurture relationships and when we begin to swim away from parasitic friends and embrace…

— Warren Cassell Jr

People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized…

— Jason Read

The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position...

— Nathaniel Chapman

“Individuals are prey to institutions in modern mass societies... Individuals can struggle mightily against institutionalized conditions, but without changing the institutions themselves, those efforts…

— Brian Awehali

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.

— Robert Shea

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of…

— Clara Barton

A society that feels itself to be flourishing is likely to interpret everything that happens to its own advantage and in its own image.…

— Linda Colley