Community Quote by Rowan Williams

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

People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions.

— John Henrik Clarke

People make institutions, not vice versa.

— Shere Hite

If institutions don't grow, they... well, I don't know what happens to them, because they always grow. I suppose the point is that we…

— Michael Wolff

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

“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

The problem with monasteries, ashrams, convents is these institutions become extremely political. In other words, they're really small societies, and much of what you…

— Frederick Lenz

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

— Paul Wellstone

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the…

— Lord Acton

“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

“Institutional structures are legitimate insofar as they enhance the opportunity to freely inquire and create, out of inner need; otherwise, they are not.”

— Noam Chomsky

One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us…

— David Frum