Institutions Quotes

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Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man… — John Taylor Gatto
Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of… — Gilles Deleuze
Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental… — Robert Anton Wilson
The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones,… — Henry David Thoreau
One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness â€“… — Bell Hooks
My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films. — Woody Allen
The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious… — Paul Feyerabend
the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions — Marshall McLuhan
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the… — Frederick Douglass
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals. — Margaret Mead
The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one… — Hendrik Hertzberg
I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it. — E. Lockhart
It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has… — Elizabeth Gilbert
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the… — Calvin Coolidge
The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and… — John Steinbeck
The "non-profit" institution neither supplies goods or services not controls. Its "product" is neither a pair of shoes nor an effective regulation. Its product is… — Peter Drucker
This kind of thing always amazed Ginny--people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn't see the point. Aunt Peg… — Maureen Johnson
I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I… — Richard Dawkins
Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for… — Evelyn Waugh

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