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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment. -- Jimi Hendrix
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting. -- A. J. P. Taylor
People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country. -- Johnny Cash
There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment. -- Orison Swett Marden
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation. -- George McGovern
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism. -- John C. Calhoun
When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers. -- William Kunstler
Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things. -- Matt Damon
The Establishment is always against protest. -- Philip Hart
Establishment women just get mad. Activists change the laws. -- Nancy Ruth
I am now The Establishment. There's nothing I can do about it. -- Jason Sudeikis
The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves. -- Yoko Ono
I went through an anti-Establishment phase and thought we should get everything for free. -- Bjork
Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed. -- Tom Driberg
If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment. -- Douglas Booth
After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong. -- Harold MacMillan
I feel like jeans and a T-shirt have become Establishment. Everyone's dressed down. So actually, putting on a jacket is the anti-Establishment stance. -- Thom Browne
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I feel like jeans and a T-shirt have become Establishment. Everyone's dressed down. So actually putting on a jacket is the anti-Establishment stance. -- Thom Browne
Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs. -- Rupert Murdoch
I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth. -- Huey Newton
I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment. -- David Edelstein
Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice? -- Florynce Kennedy
In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it. -- Edwin Thompson Jaynes
Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out -- Jane Fonda
Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals. -- Dahlia Lithwick
Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very 'risk the [Constitution's] Establishment Clause was designed to preclude. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The applicability of the Establishment Clause to public funding of benefits to religious schools was settled in Everson v. Board of Ed. of Ewing, which inaugurated the modern era of establishment doctrine. -- David Souter
The Establishment Clause . . . stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders . . . that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its 'unhallowed perversion' by a civil magistrate. -- Hugo Black
Too often, young people who are just bursting with idealism either find themselves playing a game for which they have little heart or are hurling themselves into wasteful protests against the so-called Establishment. -- George W. Romney
One of the best ways to improve men's behaviour is to enlighten their minds: and today, against the strong opposition of the Church and the Establishment, Scientific Humanism is attempting to do just that. -- Margaret E. Knight
College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line. -- Bill Gaede
I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad. -- Bernadette Devlin
Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response. -- William O. Douglas
I think unity is a mistake.... If I were the Establishment and had the big loaded guns of the various oppressive institutions....I would much prefer to see one lion come through the door than 500 mice. -- Florynce Kennedy
The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to choose between to disguise the fact that the policies are the same. -- Tony Benn
The youth rebellion [1968] is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down ad be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe. -- William S. Burroughs
The Court's majority holds that the Establishment Clause is no bar to Ohio's payment of tuition at private religious elementary and middle schools under a scheme that systematically provides tax money to support the schools' religious missions. -- David Souter
With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists. -- Antonin Scalia
Establishment suggests there must be some Wizard of Oz somewhere pulling the strings. That's not the way it works. There are individuals like myself. I sat there and watched Donald Trump, and I said, look, someone has got to say something. -- Mitt Romney
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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened. -- Bella Abzug
If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments. -- Albert Ellis
We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment. -- George Nethercutt
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans. -- Haile Selassie
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. -- Huey Newton
I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals. -- Isabel Allende
If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains! -- Kevin Spacey
Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good -- James Woods
There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast. -- Ang Lee
My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing. -- Lisa Kristine
I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game. -- Mordecai Richler
I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian. -- Jean Chretien
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth. -- Ambrose Bierce
The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world. -- Dan Kildee
True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person. -- Willard Libby
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. -- Herbert Marcuse
The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season. -- Martin Van Buren
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970. -- Tom Hayden
It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz. -- Archie Shepp
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property. -- Johann Most
For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game. -- J. C. Watts
At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe. -- John M. Ford
Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society. -- Jimmy Reid
As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment. -- Peter Wright
A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything. -- David Talbot
At first, we couldn't be establishment, because we didn't have any money. We were guerrilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit. But, as we became No. 1 in our industry, we've had to modify our culture and become a bit more planned. -- Phil Knight
President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip. -- Alveda King
There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal. -- Kate Braverman
What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins. -- Elbridge Gerry
And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs. -- Shimon Peres
One of the nicest things about receiving the accolade of Australia is that, previously, the knighthood was historically for what was termed 'the establishment.' Now, this is an accolade for somebody who comes from a working-class background. Someone whose father was a truck driver and decided to buy a truck. -- Lindsay Fox
The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window. -- William S. Burroughs
There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare. -- Daniel Ellsberg
The way the Establishment deals with people like me is to ignore them. When you become unignorable, they will try to smear you, and that's what I feared for a long time. Now I have somehow vaulted into this space where it's difficult for someone to smear me because it would look as though they were being vindictive and spiteful. -- Heather Brooke
I'm of the establishment but anti-establishment. -- Jonathan Powell
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The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry. -- Curt Flood
Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship. -- Gregory Bateson
The press . . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment. -- Sam Donaldson
Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment. -- James Heywood
What the heck would the establishment know about conservatism? -- Sarah Palin
You can send a clear message to the establishment -- Rand Paul
There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We`re saying the Washington establishment run behind Donald Trump. -- Ted Cruz
The medical establishment has become the major threat to health. -- Ivan Illich
There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment. -- Janette Turner Hospital
The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation. -- Vladimir Lenin
The establishment's gonna come together to protect themselves regardless of ideology. -- Rush Limbaugh
The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at -- Saul Alinsky
Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die. -- Tony Benn
... the establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point of incomprehensibility. -- Fred Hoyle
I was a very, very establishment person prior to wanting to run. -- Donald Trump
I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out. -- Chuck Palahniuk
War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government. -- Bertrand Russell
The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education. -- Ivan Illich
I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear. -- Florynce Kennedy
Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment -- Christopher Hayes
We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel. -- Bashar al-Assad
I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works. -- Linford Christie
The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority. -- Neil Postman
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. -- Oscar Wilde
The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles. -- James Madison
Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage. -- Iain Duncan Smith
Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon. -- Karl Rove
I am personally overseeing changes that include the establishment of a global health emergency workforce. -- Margaret Chan
I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver. -- Elizabeth Emken
It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds. -- Thom Yorke
The establishment isn't new. The establishment not wanting outsiders, not wanting conservatives, isn't anything new. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
We proclaim our commitment to continue to strive for the establishment of lasting world peace. -- Iccho Itoh
The establishment isn't new. The establishment not wanting outsiders, not wanting conservatives, isn't anything new. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that. -- Ken Stott
The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. -- James Madison
Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment. -- Bernie Sanders
War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security. -- Gustave de Molinari
I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me. -- Kid Rock
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. -- James Madison

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