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«Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Power
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attributes, complex, endowed, institution, structure, The name
«No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.»
«The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted»
«The mere idea of a woman's appealing to her family to screen her husband's business dishonour was inadmisible, since it was the one thing that the Family, as an institution, could not do.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
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appealing, dishonour, family business, Her husband, institution, screen
«There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
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«The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
(Activist, Writer)
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authority, citizen, governing, institution, skin, The Authority
«Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone... I never yet met with, or heard of, a judge who was not a slave of this kind, and so the finest and most unfailing weapon of injustice. He fetches a slightly higher price than the black men only because he is a more valuable slave.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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collar, collars, enlarges, fasten, fastening, fastens, institution, presses, suffocate, suffocated, suffocates, suffocating
«The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it, and to furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natur»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| Keywords:
administration, body politic, compose, enjoying, furnish, institution, maintenance, politic, The Body Politic, tranquillity
«The institution of Royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
institution, insult, like royalty, royalties, royalty
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