Architecture Quote by John Rawls

The way in which a society organizes the life of its members ... is one "project" of realization among others. But once the project…

— Herbert Marcuse

“[T]he ideals and desires of the majority define the structure of society as it is; a would-be mass movement that pursues a different path…

— John Michael Greer

“Institutions are the humanly devised constraints that structure human interaction. They are made up of formal constraints (rules, laws, constitutions), informal constraints (norms of…

— Thomas Dalton

Organization has to come from an agreement about principles, rather than just the need to coordinate: so as much as we must all act…

— Nigel Gibson

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

— Noam Chomsky

“Reciprocal typifications of actions are built up in the course of a shared history. They cannot be created instantaneously. Institutions always have a history,…

— Peter L. Berger

Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally…

— Milton Sapirstein

Therefore those governing the State ought primarily to devote themselves to the service of individual groups and of the whole commonwealth, and through the…

— Pope Leo XIII

“Institutionalization occurs whenever there is a reciprocal typification of habitualized actions by types of actors. Put differently, any such typification is an institution.21 What…

— Peter L. Berger

Societies depend on agreed rules.

— John Maynard Smith

“The authority of society is imposed not arbitrarily or officially, but naturally. And it is because of this fact that its effect on the…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Our history tells us that public institutions evolve through a process of bargaining between the state and groups in society.

— Hilary Benn