Institutions Quotes - Page 5

• All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

  Morris West

  Vices, Corruption, Members

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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

  Harold Wilson

  Change, Life Changing, Teaching

  Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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  I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Peace, Boys

  Thomas Jefferson (1997). “Thomas Jefferson, His Words and Vision”, p.18, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

  Fred M. Vinson

  Peace, War, Men

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• Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Heart, People

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• The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

  Walter Bagehot

  Civilization, Culture, Firsts

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.74

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• Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Law, Liberty

  William Graham Sumner (2007). “The Forgotten Man and Other Essays”, p.472, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.

  Simon Raven

  Army

  Simon Raven (1963). “Boys Will be Boys”

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• Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

  William Godwin

  School, Government, Hands

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• Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finishes up.

  Les Dawson

  Marriage, Couple, Sex Maniac

  Les Dawson (2013). “No Tears for the Clown: An Autobiography”, p.95, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

  C. Wright Mills

  Men, Personality, Doe

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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• Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Eye, Heart

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1338, GENERAL PRESS

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• Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Past, Long

  D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

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• We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other

  Stephen Breyer

  Hands, Groups, Bars

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• Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

  Learned Hand

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Justice

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Mistake, Thinking, Umpires

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• Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  God, Faith, Christian

  "Christianity and the Social Crisis". Book by Walter Rauschenbusch, 1913.

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• Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

  Henry George

  Children, Clothes, Progress

  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

  Keith Preston

  Art, Democracy, Scum

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• Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Abstract, Creeds, Judaism

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• The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  War, Hospitality

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

  Paddy Ashdown

  People, Chips, I Can

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• If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.

  Charles Inglis

  Country, Uprising, Useless

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• The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Civil Society

  "The Politics of Appeasement — Again and Again??" by Jane Wells, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2005.

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• The world is a penal institution.

  Taylor Caldwell

  World

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