#institutions

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#destructive #established #free #great #habit

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#arises #church #dead #institutions #machinery

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#democratic #governed #imf #institutions #world

The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#bring #comparison #differences #institutions #language

Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#dealing #eradicate #fact #faculty #idea

The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#commission #control #court #destiny #election

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#discouraging #downward #enrollment #however #institutions

The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan. ↗

— Mark Shields

#community-based #department #emergency #hospitals #institutions

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change. ↗

— Frederick M. Vinson

#caused #change #god #his #institutions

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#american people #critical #financial #institutions #just