Institutions

Famous quotes containing the word 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, and even threaten human survival.”
    —Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

    “... a nation to be strong, must be united; to be united, must be equal in condition; to be equal in condition, must be similar in habits and feeling; to be similar in habits and feeling, must be raised in national institutions as the children of a common family, and citizens of a common country.”
    —Frances Wright (1795–1852)

    “Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.”
    —Judith M. Bardwick (b. 1933)