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.
So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.
Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed. Major psychological disturbances, 'identity crises', are caused when an individual begins to change the audience for whom he plays: from parents to peers; from peers to the works of Albert Camus; from the Bible to Hugh Hefner.
Institutions which have too much security. . . tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes.
I would, however, question the implication that there is some novelty in this beyond modalities [of Mikhail Bakunin], which naturally change as institutions change and develop.
My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.
Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.
Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.
Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.
I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.
Apparently modern financial regulators are vastly more sophisticated than we were as financial regulators 25 years ago - because we had never figured out that the key to financial stability was leaving felons in charge of the largest financial institutions in the world.
Listen your Lordship, I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris, I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish, but I didn't inhale.
Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions.
I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.
Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.
The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone. Security also lies in the value of our free institutions.
There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.