Institutional Quote by James L. Farmer, Jr

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.

— Cornel West

It can be so difficult to get people to think about systemic institutional problems. It is easier just to see the actions of one…

— Chelsea Manning

“Institutional structures are legitimate insofar as they enhance the opportunity to freely inquire and create, out of inner need; otherwise, they are not.”

— Noam Chomsky

“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

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

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse…

— Jonathan Raymond

“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

“Institutionalization is not, however, an irreversible process, despite the fact that institutions, once formed, have a tendency to persist.49 For a variety of historical…

— Peter L. Berger

Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or…

— Rowan Williams

“Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.”

— George Will

My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of political and…

— Evgeny Morozov

People make institutions, not vice versa.

— Shere Hite