Change Quote by Ram Dass

People make institutions, not vice versa.

— Shere Hite

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

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

I'm a big believer in institutions.

— Kenneth Frazier

No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something different to survive.

— Lou Gerstner

Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.

— Kenneth Frazier

I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior.

— Chelsea Manning

Institutions do live on their history.

— Bob Hawke

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

— Stephen Herbits

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have impact on our institutions.”

— Peter Block

“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