Kenneth Frazier Quotes

Societies are not sustainable without institutions.

Societies depend on agreed rules.

Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal. It expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.

The English, more than any other people, not only act but feel according to rule.

The experience of ages demonstrates, that regularity of manners is essential to the tranquility and prosperity of societies.

I don't care much about society.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

The Social Sciences will concern themselves with the rationalization of social control... the control of human behavior.

The State is the nation socially organized.

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

Ideas appropriate to a past social order have a strange power of influencing thought and action within a later institutional framework.

Most of us are a lot more comfortable thinking about and writing about individuals than institutions.

Without government institutions, what would the anarchists have to anarchy about?

The family is the human race's natural defense against utopianism.

Rules about what you can and can’t say often have unintended consequences. … In everything we do, we need to make sure we’re empowering people, not simply reinforcing existing institutions and power structures.

I'm fairly skeptical of movements, organizations, and institutions in general.

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences - isolation, ostracism, etc.

Culture is more important than politics and government.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Law is just one public institution, but it is a cornerstone of society. When law goes, everything goes.