Ability Quote by Robert Teeter

“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

Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions and to…

— John Dewey

“The reasons why institutions fail and societies change are complex, and simplistic explanations should evoke automatic suspicion. Sometimes external causes - droughts, plagues or…

— Thomas W. Africa

Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for…

— Mahatma Gandhi

At the most basic level, if men have institutional power, they have tremendous influence to change those institutions.

— Meena Harris

People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being…

— Gunnar Myrdal

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

The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the…

— Stephen D. Cox

There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste…

— Pope Leo XIII

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

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor…

— Georg Henrik von Wright