Thought refuses to be stationary, institutions refuse to change and war is the consequence.
Institutions Quotes
Sure enough, America is a great, and in many respects a blessed and hopeful phenomenon. Sure enough, these hardy millions of Anglo-Saxon men prove themselves worthy of their genealogy… But as to a Model Republic, or a model anything, the wise among themselves know too well that there is nothing to be said… Their constitution, […]
No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.
Republican institutions cannot exist for long where there is enforced labor; or for that matter where there is enforced idleness.
It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
War challenges virtually every other institution of society-the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.
Religion is a superstition that originated in man’s mental ability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an organized institution that has always been a stumbling block to progress.
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
