Institutions Quotes

“They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that ou...

“They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. This is too much, even for a joke.” -Eugene V. Debs
📅︎ Mar 17
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall g...

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." Abraham Lincoln, inaugural speech
📅︎ Nov 03
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"Institutions will try to pre...

"Institutions will try to preserve the problem for which they are the solution." — Clay Shirky
📅︎ Sep 24
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“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetiti...

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.” ― Daniel Kahneman
📅︎ May 20
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"The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotio...

"The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall." --E. O. Wilson
📅︎ Sep 06
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“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetiti...

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.” ― Daniel Kahneman
📅︎ Sep 12
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"Institutions will try to prese...

"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." -The Shirky Principle
📅︎ Aug 05
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Some very good people have ideas with which we disagree...despite differ...

Some very good people have ideas with which we disagree...despite differences, people of goodwill can pull together for the well-being of the institutions we serve and our country. - Ruth Bader Ginsburt. From Scalia Speaks.
📅︎ Jul 26
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"I believe that banking institutions...

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. " — Thomas Jefferson
📅︎ Apr 01
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“If the misery of our poor be caused no...

“If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.“ -Charles Darwin
📅︎ Aug 14
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"The real problem of humanity ... we hav...

"The real problem of humanity ... we have Palaeolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and godlike technology." — E. O. Wilson
📅︎ Aug 20
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"If the misery of the poor be caused no...

"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin." -Charles Darwin
📅︎ Apr 18
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The Revolution won’t happen with guns. It will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by g...

The Revolution won’t happen with guns. It will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and political offices, transforming them slowly into Marxist entities as we move towards universal egalitarianism. — Max Horkheimer
📅︎ Dec 13
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The stories we tell literally make the world. If you want t...

The stories we tell literally make the world. If you want to change the world, you need to change your story. This truth applies both to individuals and institutions. – Michael Margolis
📅︎ Feb 05
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"I believe that banking institutions...

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. " — Thomas Jefferson
📅︎ Jul 08
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"The real problem of humanity ... we hav...

"The real problem of humanity ... we have Palaeolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and godlike technology." — E. O. Wilson
📅︎ Apr 16
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"...institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well ...

"...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
📅︎ Feb 17
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"Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes...

"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." - Thomas Jefferson
📅︎ May 12
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“We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institut...

“We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash about. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life.” ― Edward O. Wilson
📅︎ Mar 18
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"The struggle for justice is an ongoing an...

"The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions." -- The Satanic Temple
📅︎ Oct 02
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“The pursuit of ‘fairness’ has become a particularly unlovely and unedifying frenzy. Perfect fairn...

“The pursuit of ‘fairness’ has become a particularly unlovely and unedifying frenzy. Perfect fairness is a will-o’-the-wisp, the pursuit of which produces short tempers, long arguments, intense litigiousness, bad law, abused institutions and diminished social comity.” George Will ("Suddenly") (1990)
📅︎ Feb 23
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"The tragedy of humanity is that we have s...

"The tragedy of humanity is that we have stone age instincts, medieval institutions, and god-like powers with technology" -Ed Wilson
📅︎ Mar 28
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"Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: lat...

"Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on , there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions. ...they make men small, cowardly, and hedonistic" - Nietzsche
📅︎ Aug 11
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"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which jus...

"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on — because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions." - Noam Chomsky
📅︎ Oct 07
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“If the misery of our poor be cau...

“If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
📅︎ Jun 02
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"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian o...

"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." Thomas Paine
📅︎ Oct 22
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"The Human still has stone age feelings, medieval ...

"The Human still has stone age feelings, medieval institutions and god-like technology. That's what we have to deal with" - Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiologist
📅︎ Feb 28
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You know why our institutions are failing us -- the church,...

You know why our institutions are failing us -- the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um – they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Bill Hicks
📅︎ Aug 12
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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, o...

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. -Thomas Paine
📅︎ Oct 16
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and ...

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. Thomas Jefferson
📅︎ Mar 18
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I mean, what’s the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence,...

I mean, what’s the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the same secret society where you’re trained to be a ruler - they both can run because they’re financed by the same corporate institutions.– Noam Chomsky
📅︎ Jul 01
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