Architecture Quote by Ian MacKaye

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far…

— Charles Horton Cooley

“But if a long train of abuses, prevarications, and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people, it is…

— Mark R. Levin

Injustice has exhausted people but also pushed them to organize and fight back in very sophisticated ways.

— Shaun King

“The machine-like behavior of people chained to electronics constitutes a degradation of their well-being and of their dignity which, for most people in the…

— Ivan Illich

“It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government…

— James Madison

It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself…

— Pope Leo XIII

“Vast organisations produce a sense of impotence in the individual, leading to a decay of effort. The danger can be averted if it is…

— Bertrand Russell

“Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with rigidity. Our political and economic and social leaders drool about…

— Tom Robbins

Power which can be abused, will be abused.

— Jim Warner

To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships…

— Robert M. Pirsig

In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now…

— Ella Baker

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration…

— Albert Einstein