Institutions Quotes

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I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the… — Muhammad Yunus
The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or… — Thomas Sowell
The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference… — Augusten Burroughs
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone… — Dean Koontz
The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined… — Daisaku Ikeda
Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because,… — Bill Hicks
The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is… — Ludwig von Mises
The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent,… — Michel Foucault
Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful… — Steve Wozniak
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.. — Bell Hooks
The violence of the Left is symbolic, the injuries are not intended. The violence of the Right is real - directed at people, designed to… — George Carlin
It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call… — Wallace Stegner
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening,… — John Pilger
Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong… — Emma Goldman
People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial… — Muhammad Yunus
Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition.… — Susan Sontag
I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear… — John Marshall
The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the… — Oswald Chambers

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