Behavior Quote by Jeff VanderMeer

“Barbee had always wondered about mental institutions. He thought of taking notes for a feature story on this adventure at Glennhaven, as the evening…

— Jack Williamson

When you're a writer and something difficult happens to you, one of the things involved in that is this emergence of narrative potential. And…

— Leslie Jamison

... inventions and purely human institutions.

— Jean Meslier

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to…

— Philip Yancey

The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to…

— Thomas Malthus

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

— Eugene V. Debs

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

— John Marshall

“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 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

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

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

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