Institutional Criticism Quotes

I never agreed with the message of the Catholic Church - and still don't to this day.

Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.

I despise the current Supreme Court and find its aggressive, willful statist behavior disgusting.

There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.

War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.

I am for religion, against religions.

The NCAA is probably the most reprehensible organization God ever created.

He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.

The BBC is a victim of its own independence.

I think Pique, apart from the odd personal remark, has never had a bad opinion about any of my teammates at Real Madrid, but obviously, when he attacks Real Madrid, our club, and our institution, it kind of tarnishes all of the rest of what he says.

Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced.

How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it's a crap idea?

We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated.

The Internet is not kind to established institutions.

It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticise and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.

Just as members of American teachers unions often send their own children to private schools, so unionized workers at government-run hospitals in Britain have insurance that allows them to go to private hospitals. In both cases, those on the inside realize how bad these institutions are, regardless of what they say to those on the outside.

It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.

I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

For many years, despite what I thought were really punitive decisions about women in the church, I stayed and stayed and stayed. I kept saying to myself, "The Catholic church is my church, and by God, I'm going to stay here, despite what the hierarchy does."

The UN is hardly democratic.