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Institutions Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
- The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit,…
- The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas,…
- Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.
- States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent…
- There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown…
- The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary…
- In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work force itself, the…
- Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities have a dominant…
- Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of…
- The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to…
- Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of managers give orders, everyone follows orders..... At the very bottom of command, if you…
- A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive…
- Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that authority and domination…
- Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if…
- The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for…
- It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions…
- You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system…
- I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the same secret society…
- You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.
- If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.
- In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about…
- Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue…
More Institutions Quotes
- London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,… — David Attenborough
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have… — Drew Barrymore
- An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the… — Clara Barton
- Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken… — Gary Bauer
- As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. — Pierre Beaumarchais
- What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing… — Henry Ward Beecher
- No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions… — Ruth Benedict
- FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day… — Felix Adler
- Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. — Annie Besant
- Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam… — Lewis Black
- What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and… — William Blake