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Institutions ought not to be created by means of the law. Instead, they ought to be the promulgators of laws.
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...international solidarity can take new and more constructive forms as the great majority of the people of the world come to understand that their interests are pretty much the same and can be advanced by working together. There is no more reason now than there has ever been to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws, not simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will -- human institutions, that have to face the test of legitimacy and, if they do not meet it, can be replaced by others that are more free and more just, as often in the past.
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Morality in human evolution is similar to matter in natural evolution: the essence is abiding, the forms are fleeting.
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... the most common establishments of human society are to be classed among the encroachments which fraud, oppression, or a busy invention, have made upon the reign of nature, by which the chief of our grievances or blessings were equally withheld.
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...a circumstance, which is essential to the existence of civil society, must always support itself...
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Many new buildings are well designed for public display, esthetic consideration, or even for the ease of top administrators during and after the process of construction, but they are poorly designed for the great majority of people who will be using them.
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One of the optimistic things about this day of ours is the number of its institutions that are breaking down, and the breakdown of government by politics, evident everywhere...
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...I had always sought to demonstrate that the social wrongs do not depend on the wickedness of one master or the other, one governer or the other, but rather on masters and governments as institutions; therefore, the remedy does not lie in changing the individual rulers, instead it is necessary to demolish the principle itself by which men dominate over men...
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Destroy the institution and the machinery of existing social organizations? Yes, certainly, if it is a question of repressive institutions; but these are, after all, only a small part of the complex of social life.
[Section 2.]
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...the criterion of an allocative improvement: viz one that makes some people better off while making nobody worse off.
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...so entrenched are the interests involved, commercial, institutional and scientific, and so pervasive the influence of modern communications, that economic growth has embedded itself in the ethos of our civilization. Despite the manifest disamenities caused by the postwar economic expansion, no one today seeking to advance his position in the hierarchy of government or business fails to pay homage to this sovereign concept.
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... in the modern world no one describable as an intellectual can keep out of politics in the sense of not caring about them. I think one must engage in politics — using the word in a wide sense — and that one must have preferences: that is, one must recognize that some causes are objectively better than others, even if they are advanced by equally bad means.
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The thing, therefore, now to be done is to remedy the evils and preserve the benefits that have arisen to society by passing from the natural to that which is called the civilized state.
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Everything moves towards the same end indeed, but this end is by no means that of the public happiness...
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As long as there still exists even one institution which the individual may not dissolve, the ownness and self-appurtenance of Me is still very remote. How can I be free when I must bind myself by oath to a constitution, a charter, a law, "vow body and soul" to my people? How can I be my own when my faculties may develop only so far as they "do not disturb the harmony of society"?
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...as a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
Chronology :
April 07, 2020 : Institutions -- Added.
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