I am now The Establishment. There's nothing I can do about…

It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or…

— Marsden Hartley

One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us…

— David Frum

Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and…

— Aristotle

The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own…

— Saul Alinsky

The central base of world political power is right here in America, and it is our corrupt political establishment that is the greatest power…

— Donald Trump

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…

— Tom Hayden

It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country…

— James Madison

There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people…

— Noam Chomsky

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make…

— Peter Maxwell Davies

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments…

— James Madison

Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

— Oscar Wilde

The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be…

— Ivan Illich

Jeb Bush was supposed to be the establishment candidate, but he didn't catch on. And the extraordinary thing about this Republican primary is that…

— Mara Liasson

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

— Thomas Jefferson

The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively…

— Martin Van Buren