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When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power, we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.


D.H. Lawrence


#institutions #life

Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including our religions and so-called morals and values, are institutions steeped in traditions of absolute and total violence.


Bryant McGill


#government #institution #morality #politics #religion

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isn't true.


Andy Rooney


#customs #falsehood #falsehoods #hoax #institutions

If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be equally critical of evangelical (and especially American) Christianity's modernity and its appropriation of Enlightenment notions of the autonomous self. Indeed, many otherwise orthodox Christians, who recoil at the notion of theological liberalism, have unwittingly adopted notions of freedom and autonomy that are liberal to the core. Averse to hierarchies and control, contemporary evangelicalism thrives on autonomy: the autonomy of the nondenominational church, at a macrocosmic level, and the autonomy of the individual Christian, at the microcosmic level. And it does not seem to me that the emerging church has changed much on this score; indeed, some elements of emergent spirituality are intensifications of this affirmation of autonomy and a laissez-faire attitude with respect to institutions.


James K.A. Smith


#churches #doctrine #emergent-church #foucault #institutions

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust. Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a greater good shared by others. It does not allow that the sacrifices imposed on a few are outweighed by the larger sum of advantages enjoyed by many. Therefore in a just society the liberties of equal citizenship are taken as settled; the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests.


John Rawls


#individuals #justice #liberalism #philosophy #social-institutions

We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.


Mahmoud Abbas


#differ #include #institutions #issues #jerusalem

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#by the time #change #critics #during #everybody

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.


Steve Allen


#patriotism #totalitarianism

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.


Paddy Ashdown


#create #heads #i #i can #institutions

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.


Paddy Ashdown


#civil #civil society #created #failure #greatest






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