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Quotes About Establishment

The Harbor was a plain brick building, undistinguished and solid.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
~ Art Buchwald
The complete lack of governance in huge swaths of the Middle East - that is the project of the American establishment.
~ Ben Rhodes
David Ben-Gurion established the Israeli intelligence community in June of 1948, just three weeks after the establishment of Israel and in the midst of war.
~ Ronen Bergman
Millions of people feel ignored by the political establishment.
~ John McDonnell
the supply of customers and the supply of labor are almost totally under the control of the education establishment. Compulsory attendance laws guarantee a captive audience, except for about 13 percent of American youngsters who attend private schools,5 and official requirements of education courses for permanent tenure keep out the unwanted competition of potential teachers from outside the existing establishment.
~ Thomas Sowell
So the convict establishment, born of poverty and hatred, gave birth to wealth and hope.
~ Keith Sinclair
with the very long-term political class.
~ C.J. Box
The proportionality constant is 21.6, meaning that there is approximately one establishment for about every 22 people in a city, regardless of the city size.
~ Geoffrey West
The goal of redemption is nothing less than the establishment of God's rule in all the world, "that God may be everything to every one" (1 Cor. 15:28).
~ George Eldon Ladd
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 some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.
~ George F. Kennan
The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.
~ Wayne Allard
I won't eat offal. Once, I was in London at the Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, which is this really fancy eating establishment and hotel, and I almost got conned into eating testicles. It was one of the most delicious meals I've ever eaten, about twelve courses. That was one of the courses.
~ Lucy Punch
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
Tea Party to establishment from social conservative to libertarian, we all - what people want more than anything is they don't just want a fighter. They want someone who fights and wins.
~ Lindsey Graham
We will not accept any...coexistence with Israel...Today the issue is not the establishment of peace between the Arab states and Israel....The war with Israel is in effect since 1948.
~ Gamal Abdel Nasser
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
I really wanted people just to get to know Solange on my first album, just to establish Solange's sound, just to establish Solange's personality.
~ Solange Knowles
In my very early days as a journalist, as a cub reporter on a local newspaper, I used to cover the district courthouse in Limerick city - all human life passed through that establishment, and my time there remains a source of inspiration.
~ Kevin Barry
I think the most difficult thing that has had to happen in South Africa for the previously disadvantaged communities is they had to reconcile that the oppressor has been enriched and the establishment is now making five or 10 times more profit than they were during the time the economic embargo was on them.
~ Hugh Masekela
Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
~ Ted Cruz
Another recent event is the almost-instant bankruptcy, in 1998, of a financial investment company (hedge fund) called Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), which used the methods and risk expertise of two "Nobel economists," who were called "geniuses" but were in fact using phony, bell curve–style mathematics while managing to convince themselves that it was great science and thus turning the entire financial establishment into suckers.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Socrates was put to death because he disrupted something that, in the eyes of the Athenian establishment, was working just fine.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this— we can perceive that events are brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular case, but by the establishment of general laws.—Whewell: Bridgewater Treatise.
~ Charles Darwin