In all of the British dependencies these organisations, these front groups, were called the Royal Institute for International Affairs. In the United States they chose a different name; they chose the Council on Foreign Relations. G Edward Griffin, interview Alex Jones, Invisible Empire: A New World Order & Invisible Empire
The Institute of International Affairs – this institute had two branches: one set up in England called the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and the Council on Foreign Relations was incorporated as the American branch in New York on July 29th 1921. Ben Stewart, Esoteric Agenda
The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state ...
The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard. Henry David Thoreau, I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D Thoreau
The World Trade Organisation was created ... by the same institutions, the same powerful central banks that created the United Nations and empowered it in the 1940s. They seek to destroy national sovereignty not just in America but worldwide and reign it in under the control of a huge dictatorial machine. And their track record is clear: they are nothing more than servants of the corrupt global establishment serving their every whim, dividing up the property on the global plantation. Alex Jones, Police State II: The Takeover
A writer must refuse, therefore, to allow himself to be transformed into an institution. Jean-Paul Sartre, refusing Nobel Prize 22nd October 1964
The system that was trying to control your mind and destroy your freedom … What Laing and the counter-culture were doing was tearing down Britain’s institutions in the name of freedom. Adam Curtis, The Trap I: Fuck You, Buddy, BBC 2007
The reality is that all these societies, not just America and Britain but China and Russia too, are exhausted, empty of any new ideas. All of them have corruption that has burrowed deep into their institutions. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head VI Are We a Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer? ***** BBC 2021
Society today is composed of a series of institutions … There seems to be no system that’s taken for granted and misunderstood as the monetary system. Zeitgeist addendum, 2008