Establishment Quotes

406 Establishment quotes by 328 unique authors

After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and… — Carson McCullers
And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is… — Hannah Arendt
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 re-established… — Ivan Illich
Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until… — George F. Kennan
They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction. — Galileo Galilei
Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they… — Bell Hooks
The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new… — Howard Zinn
If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up… — Herbert Marcuse
But you have said it too often, Mr. Benedict!" said Mrs. Perumal in an imperious tone that was quite out of character. "And if you… — Trenton Lee Stewart
Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments… — Rob Bell
Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties… — Amartya Sen
When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected… — Ilona Andrews
The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.… — Arundhati Roy
Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely… — Terry Pratchett
Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This… — J.A. Konrath
I'm trying to figure out how someone could live in a brothel for a month and not notice. You must be terribly dull-witted." Tessa glared.… — Cassandra Clare
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been… — James Madison
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. I attribute it to the superior… — Oscar Wilde
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;… — William S. Burroughs

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