Social Institutions Quotes - Page 3

• In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called 'social justice' might more accurately be called anti-social justice, since what consistently gets ignored or dismissed are precisely the costs to society. Such a conception of justice seeks to correct, not only biased or discriminatory acts by individuals or by social institutions, but unmerited disadvantages in general, from whatever source they may arise.

  Thomas Sowell

  Justice, Cost, May

  Thomas Sowell (2001). “The Quest for Cosmic Justice”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

  August Strindberg

  Children, Independent, Doe

  August Strindberg (2014). “Married”, p.229, The Floating Press

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• The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.

  Paul Goodman

  Issues, People, Grace

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• As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of toil. It ensures the necessary vacation in those earthly and turbulent anxieties and affections, which would otherwise become inordinate and morbid. It brings around a season of periodical neatness and decency, when the soil of weekly labour is laid aside, and men meet each other amidst the decencies of the sanctuary, and renew their social affections. But above all, a Sabbath (one day of rest in seven) is necessary for man's moral and religious interests.

  Robert Dabney

  Religious, War, Son

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• I find it perfectly consistent for libertarians to operate on the municipal or county level, where they are close to the people and where they may have a party or a federation that is made up of the social institutions, the residual social institutions that still remain, over and beyond what the State has managed to preempt and absorb.

  Murray Bookchin

  Party, People, Levels

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• While I am happy to make the occasional foray into educational philosophy - writing, for example, of the difficulty in the contemporary context for a teacher to be 'truthful' - it is more the personal conduct of a life than social institutions that I am concerned to examine.

  David E. Cooper

  Teacher, Educational, Philosophy

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin red labels on anyone whom they wish to destroy. ... [Academic professionals are the only person competant to differentiate between honest independents and the Communists.] This is our responsibility. It is not a pleasant task. But if it is left to outsiders, the distinction is not likely to be made and those independent critics of social institutions among us who are one of the glories of a true university could be silenced.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Independent, Responsibility, Self

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• Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service.

  Robert L. Payton

  Philanthropy, Social, Instruction

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• Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole story. Grandparents, in the absence of the social institutions that once demanded civilized behavior, have their work cut out for them. Our grandchildren are hungry for our love and approval, but also for standards being set.

  Eda LeShan

  Cutting, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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• I remain a religious agnostic, but, unlike most atheists, I not only am not hostile to traditional religion but consider it a highly valuable, not to say essential, social institution... I am convinced that the moral regeneration and repair of a frayed social fabric that this country so badly needs will not take place unless more people take their religion seriously.

  Guenter Lewy

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Guenter Lewy (1996). “Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Education, Children, Organization

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• We now live in a 'post-Christian' America . The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no longer dominate social thought and action. The Bible has ceased to be a common base of moral authority for judging whether something is right or wrong, good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable.

  Harvey Cox

  Christian, Religious, America

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• The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

  Alan Watts

  Expression, Games, People

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• I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Struggle, Social

  Source: criticalflame.org

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• No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Jobs, Our Society, Talent

  Henry Mintzberg (1989). “Mintzberg on Management: Inside Our Strange World of Organizations”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Creating, Growth, Movement

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• It is intended to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.

  Raphael Lemkin

  Political, Feelings, Liberty

  Raphael Lemkin (2008). “Axis Rule in Occupied Europe”, p.79, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can also model communities after nature's ecosystems, which are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms. Since the outstanding characteristic of the biosphere is its inherent ability to sustain life, a sustainable human community must be designed in such a manner that its technologies and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.

  Fritjof Capra

  Life, Nature, Learning

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• The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion of the victorious group over the vanquished, and securing itself against revolt from within and attacks from abroad. Teleologically, this dominion had no other purpose than the economic exploitation of the vanquished by the victors.

  Franz Oppenheimer

  Men, Groups, Purpose

  Franz Oppenheimer (1923). “The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically”, p.15, Transaction Publishers

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• I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

  Andrew Eldritch

  England, Social, Institutions

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• As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Past, Order, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.90, Xist Publishing

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• Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

  Henry Mintzberg

  Business, Corporations, Management

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• Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

  Alan Watts

  Reality, Play, Ideas

  Alan Watts (1999). “Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion”, p.29, Tuttle Publishing

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