History Quote by Henry James Sumner Maine

“Moon and earth is the longest known stable love affair known to man kind”

— Danny Maximus

There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first…

— Edmund Burke

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its…

— Herbert Read

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

— Herbert Read

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to earn their…

— Richard Holloway

How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check…

— James Monroe

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

— George Bernard Shaw

Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.

— Mitch Kapor

... inventions and purely human institutions.

— Jean Meslier

“a government, which does not rest on the sympathies of its subjects, cannot long abide; that human institutions, when not connected with human prosperity…

— William H. Prescott

“One of the most important elements in the evolution of human institutions is the emergence of the difficult customer within the system itself, the…

— Richard Holloway

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

— John Marshall

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

— Eugene V. Debs

There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.

— James Monroe