Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of…

Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect…

— John Taylor Gatto

“institutionalised learning in schools and institutions can tend to undermine the desire to learn, at least in certain contexts and under certain forms.”

— Knud Illeris

The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as is the…

— Reed Hundt

Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward égalité and justice…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“Monopolizing the right to speak authoritatively about “security” in name of everyone—the ability to evoke the “national interest” or a universal “we”—is at the…

— Gearoid Otuathail

Renewable energy fits well into the conservative mindset by allowing competition into the energy markets so that consumers have choice. The system as it…

— Mark Ruffalo

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of…

— John Taylor Gatto

The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,…

— Tom Robbins

If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status…

— Eli Broad

In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of…

— John Hume

Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it…

— David Josiah Brewer

Every profession has an ideology and a drive for power that goes far beyond its achievements and it is the task of democracy to…

— Paul Feyerabend

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

— Amos Oz

“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are…

— Karl Marx

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want…

— Kim Stanley Robinson