Action Quote by Nick Harkaway

There are a lot of things that can be done within the framework of existing institutions which would be very valuable for people.

— Noam Chomsky

Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.

— Dalai Lama

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution

— Anonymous

The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.

— Wadada Leo Smith

We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.

— Lee Scott

If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.

— Nelson Mandela

The more we demand that institutions allow us to be who we are, the more they're going to have to.

— Stephen Herbits

We need a mobilized and active civil society using its purchasing power to demand sustainable products and practices. It is also essential that governments…

— Guilherme Leal

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

— Noam Chomsky

Government requires bringing people together and genuinely hearing their issues. It requires the establishment and strengthening of community.

— John Hickenlooper

“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,…

— Edward Abbey

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy - the system of a free press, unions, political…

— Ronald Reagan