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Quotes About Establishment

If you look at a company like Uber, a company that so anti-establishment that cab companies are trying to find ways to shut it down, one could compare that to how Public Enemy and NWA went after then-modern society in hip hop.
~ Troy Carter
People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
~ Campbell Brown
I think that people on both sides of the aisle are rejecting what's going on with Washington and the establishment.
~ Scott DesJarlais
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.
~ Dmitri Mendeleev
Before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Jewish leaders were intent on discovering and laying claim to their heritage in the region. They took an intense interest in archaeology, embarking on quests to bring significant items of Judaica to Palestine.
~ Ronen Bergman
Having defeated global fascism, a ruined country rebuilt itself from rubble thanks to the most progressive government in our history and the talents of its children, kids raised by and large outside of the establishment and the elite on a diet of orange juice, free school milk, NHS specs, Watch with Mother, public libraries, art schools, galleries and all the other benefits of a forward-looking state and a commitment to the public good not the private profit.
~ Stuart Maconie
Despite rejection by the establishment, Bowlby pioneered on, giving form to a theory of what he called attachment. (The story goes that when asked by his wife why he didn't give it its rightful name, a theory of love, he replied, "What? I'd be laughed out of science.")
~ Sue Johnson
My aspiration to become a jurist had been laid to rest in the Graveyard of Failed Hopes, an all-female establishment.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
The Ear is the local bar down the block from the agency. It's one of the oldest drinking establishments in New York, and it got its current name because the neon curves on the letter "B" in "Bar" burned out years ago, leaving only "Ear" glowing.
~ Josh Kilmer-Purcell
I really established my game and myself the two years I was in Indy.
~ Bojan Bogdanovic
Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Stiglitz is not a Left economist. Indeed, it would be difficult to find a more authentic insider and establishment figure than Stiglitz.
~ Prashant Bhushan
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
~ Booker T. Washington
Punk recognised the fact that the establishment had no room. There's no point in saying you've got the establishment wrong because they hadn't got the establishment wrong, they'd got it absolutely dead on.
~ John Hurt
For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
~ Tammy Bruce
The strength of the scientific establishment in any country is related to its general level of education, not only in supplying large numbers of eager minds for further training, but also in ensuring a public opinion that holds science in esteem and approves financial support.
~ Arthur Lewis
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
I don't think the white establishment will ever respect or appreciate a black man who speaks the truth.
~ Rick James
Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I come from an old establishment family from Singapore.
~ Kevin Kwan
CALVIN: The problem with rock'n'roll is that the generation that created it is now the establishment. Rock pretends it's still rebellious with its video posturing, but who believes it? The stars are 45-year-old zillionaires or they endorse soft drinks! The Revolution is a capitalist industry! Give me a break. Fortunately, I've found some protest music for TODAY'S youth! This stuff really offends Mom and Dad! HOBBES: Easy-listening Muzak? CALVIN: I play it real quiet, too. [Page 40]
~ Bill Watterson
Bannon believed Graham was the best deal maker for Republicans, but he was the establishment. Graham didn't like Bannon's nationalist agenda, telling him, "Bannon, that America First is bullshit. This is all bullshit
~ Bob Woodward
MADRE. - Y fuimos a establecernos en Arromanches, donde te ofrecieron un buen trabajo. PADRE. - Desollador. Un poco como escultor, pero más animado.
~ Boris Vian
She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It's quite a privilege to attend on her. It's not too much to say that she will do credit to our establishment!
~ Bram Stoker