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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

Institutions are the rules of the game in a society or, more formally, are the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.