Institutional Quotes

“Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.”
― Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest

“In Chinese class we learn every character / has its own history, so in other words, / in class we learn language makes itself / alive, so in other words, / I know my history is alive every time I speak.”
― Raya Tuffaha

“I don’t believe you change hearts.

I believe you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate.

You’re not going to change every heart. You’re not.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton