Institutions Quotes

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He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent… — August Strindberg
Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions. — Joanne Greenberg
Way, way back in the day, like in the 1990s, if you wanted to tell everyone you ate waffles for breakfast, you couldnâ€™t just go… — Ellen DeGeneres
Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right.… — Jasper Fforde
Democracy is a con game. Itâ€™s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, â€˜We are free.â€™… — Jacque Fresco
Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom… — Arthur Koestler
Give us a world where half our homes are run by men, and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would… — Sheryl Sandberg
Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot… — E. O. Wilson
Itâ€™s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? Theyâ€™re totalitarian institutions… — Noam Chomsky
The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply… — John Rawls
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to… — Carl Sagan
My conception of freedom. â€” The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police. — Albert Einstein
Friendship is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if… — Muhammad Ali
Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions. — Slobodan MiloseviÄ‡
Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution… — Rosa Luxemburg
I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving… — Martin Luther
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education… — Winston Churchill

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