Certain Quote by Noam Chomsky

Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from…

— David Brooks

“Individuals are prey to institutions in modern mass societies... Individuals can struggle mightily against institutionalized conditions, but without changing the institutions themselves, those efforts…

— Brian Awehali

When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and…

— Emma Goldman

Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.

— Kenneth Frazier

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

In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can…

— Audre Lorde

“Unjust systems perpetuate themselves by means of institutionalized violence.”

— Walter Wink

One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

“Reciprocal typifications of actions are built up in the course of a shared history. They cannot be created instantaneously. Institutions always have a history,…

— Peter L. Berger

Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.

— Ram Dass

We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to prevent the…

— Matthew Crawford

“The development of specific mechanisms of social controls also becomes necessary with the historicization and objectivation of institutions. Deviance from the institutionally “programmed” courses…

— Peter L. Berger