Establishment Quotes

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.

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.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.

Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.

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.

The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.

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.

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.

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.

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.

Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to turn Ukraine's protested presidential election on November 21 into a new cold war with Russia.

I suggest that instead of criticising us, the establishment has a bloody good look at itself.

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.

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.

I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

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.

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.

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.

I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.