Demand Quote by Stephen Herbits

“Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.”

— George Will

I'm a big believer in institutions.

— Kenneth Frazier

“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

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

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

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

People make institutions, not vice versa.

— Shere Hite

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

— Henry Paulson

“Defend institutions. It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of “our institutions” unless…

— Timothy Snyder

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

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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

My own view is that institutions are a glory, and for all their imperfections, something really to be proud of. It is true that…

— Cass Sunstein