Institution

Institution

An institution is any structure or mechanism of social order and cooperation governing the behavior of a set of individuals within a given community — may it be human or a specific animal one. Institutions are identified with a social purpose, transcending individuals and intentions by mediating the rules that govern cooperative living behavior.

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Famous quotes containing the word institution:

    “When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “... an institution cannot be run progressively on a basis of fear.”
    —Mary B. Harris (1874–1957)