Bend Quote by Noam Chomsky

Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Stephen Herbits

People make institutions, not vice versa.

— Shere Hite

Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.

— Ram Dass

We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.

— Nick Harkaway

We must limit the perception that some institutions are either too big or too interconnected to fail.

— Henry Paulson

Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state…

— Kevin Carson

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

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

Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If we ignore international institutions, it will lead only to lawlessness and anarchy.

— Lisa Anderson

“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