Institutions Quotes

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt ‘humanistic’ system is a God-centered government.

This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate error so long as reason is free to combat it.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

Laws and institutions must go hand and hand with the progress of the human mind.

The workings of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self-interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.