Institutions Quotes - Page 33

• In fact, the legal system is in part responsible for their very size and growth. And too often when the individual finds himself in conflict with these forces, the legal system sides with the giant institution, not the small businessman or private citizen.

  Edward Kennedy

  Growth, Giants, Citizens

  Speech before American Bar Association, New York (August 8, 1978), reported in "What They Said in 1978" by Alan F. Pater, Jason R. Pate, (p. 168), 1979.

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• If you look at any institution in history - look at the Roman Empire - anything in history, and what it looks like when it's peaking. Look at Apple, and how can you say it's not peaking? ... The thing is, it may take another year or two before it starts to decline, but it has to - everything does.

  Trip Hawkins

  Years, Two, Apples

  "Trip Hawkins On Apple". "Edge Online", August 2, 2011.

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• Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to be worse paid than the labours of trade and manufactures.

  Thomas Malthus

  Agriculture, Corporations, Causes

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.33, University of Michigan Press

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• I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is probably the best place to put that proposition to the test Well, you're going to find a disproportionate number of Jews in any sort of intellectual undertaking.

  Richard Perle

  Country, Thinking, Iraq

  "Richard Perle: The Making of a Neoconservative". "Think Tank" with Ben Wattenberg, www.pbs.org. November 14, 2002.

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• In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, President, Development

  "Israeli-Palestinian Talks Could Be Delayed". Interview with Alison Stewart, Luke Burbank, www.npr.org. October 15, 2007.

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• The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Reform, Obedience

  John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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• When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them

  John Rawls

  Desire, Principles, Structure

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

  John Rawls

  Share, Advantage, Riders

  "A Theory of Justice". Book by John Rawls, 1971.

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• Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Creating, People, Pay

  "Grameen Bank II: Designed to Open New Possibilities". Monograph by Muhammad Yunus, 2002.

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• What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but in order for us to actually be free in our social interactions, there must be an extremely elaborated network of health, law, institutions, moral rules and so on.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Law, Order, Want

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• We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as elsewhere, intellectual inertia, the fashions of the moment, the weight of institutions, and authoritarianism are always to be feared. Heresies play an essential role by keeping our minds argumentative and alert.

  Hubert Reeves

  Fashion, Play, Intellectual

  "Atoms of Silence: an Exploration of Cosmic Evolution". Book by Hubert Reeves, 1984.

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• These are economic issues that should get resolved. There are creative solutions to every problem. Hopefully between the lending institutions and the city, we'll be able to find creative solutions.

  Bob DuPuy

  Creativity, Cities, Issues

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• We'll have a different set of values, and society will adapt. That doesn't mean these changes are all good, just because we will accept them. But the 'Chicken Little' view of history isn't correct. Changes take place gradually, and people and institutions adapt.

  Robert Reischauer

  Mean, Views, People

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• By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day institutions - some of them extremely vital to the functioning of our complex civilization - simply fail to exist in the first place.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Civilization, Majority, Answers

  "Helpless Individuals". lesswrong.com. March 30, 2009.

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• All of our punishment institutions, including jails, laws, church confessionals, and so forth, are systems of illusion. The order of the universe, the infinite justice of yin and yang, naturally takes care of all motion and compensation. We don't need to invent arbitrary ways to make balance with punishments.

  Michio Kushi

  Order, Law, Punishment

  "Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom". Book by Michio Kushi and Edward Esko (p. 57), December 1994.

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• Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it. But marriage has weathered centuries of skirmishes and change. It has evolved from an institution that was imposed on some people and denied to others, to the loving union of companionship, commitment, and caring between equal partners that we think of today.

  Evan Wolfson

  Commitment, Caring, Thinking

  Evan Wolfson (2007). “Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first full-blown legitimacy crisis in the wake of the early-twentieth-century merger movement, when, for the first time, many Americans realized that corporations, now turned behemoths, threatened to overwhelm their social institutions and governments.

  Joel Bakan

  Government, People, Needs

  Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

  Joel Bakan

  Purpose, Corporations, Interest

  Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment

  Kingsley Martin

  Secret, Flourishing, British

  "The Crown and the Establishment". Book by Kingsley Martin, London, p. 175,

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• [I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens and strict maintenance of public faith with the creditors of the state [and] a fresh guarantee of peace by an alliance with France and...Belgium for the defence of our common interests against unprovoked attack.

  Austen Chamberlain

  Believe, Thrones, Maintenance

  "The Impact of Labour, 1920-1924: The Beginnings of Modern British Politics" by Maurice Cowling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (p. 147), 1971.

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• The only kind of marriage liberals had ever glorified is the gay kind. But thanks to Michael Schiavo, the sanctity of marriage is fast becoming a liberal sacrament, with the proviso it has to involve 'mercy killing.' It took Michael Schiavo's devoted efforts to starve and dehydrate his wife to restore liberal faith in the institution.

  Ilana Mercer

  Gay, Wife, Effort

  "As She Lay Dying". www.wnd.com. March 26, 2005.

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• They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating property. The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; and it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Independence, Rich

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• Quality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smoky windows and oceans of words, and he sees that what he is talking about can never really be accepted here because to see it one has to be free of social authority and this is an institution of social authority. Quality for sheep is what the shepherd says. And if you take a sheep and put it up at the timberline at night when the wind is roaring, that sheep will be panicked half to death and will call and call until the shepherd comes, or comes the wolf.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Ocean, Night, Wind

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Individual Strength, Church, Weakness

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.

  Adi Da

  Religious, League, Done

  Adi Da Samraj (1980). “Scientific proof of the existence of God will soon be announced by the White House!: prophetic wisdom about the myths and idols of mass culture and popular religious cultism, the new priesthood of scientific and political materialism, and the secrets of enlightenment hidden in the body of man”, Dawn Horse Pr

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