The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time.
Sometimes to think about why some institutions are stable, it's interesting to go one generation back and look at the author of that stability.
It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.
Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.
Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones.
There's a nice clear difference between real protection (wash your hands, or wear a condom) and the fake protection offered by institutions which often come, finally and sadly, to be much too interested first of all in protecting their own power.
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.
Schools [are]. . . institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.
There are not enough forums where institutions invite their workers to share their failures in a constructive way so the organization can move forward.
If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.
A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of awareness, both individually and collectively. . . As long as our thinking is governed by industrial, "machine age" metaphors such as control, predicatbility, and "faster is better", we will continue to re-create institutions as we have, despite their increasing disharmony with the larger world.
Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs. . . in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.
If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve becomes vitally important.
As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U. S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters.
Once you've been in a mental institution, people are going to look at you funny.
In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!
My own view is that institutions are a glory, and for all their imperfections, something really to be proud of. It is true that things can be a lot better than they are. It's okay to emphasize that.