Establishment Quotes - Page 11

• Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.

  Bernard Brodie

  Military, War, Winning

  Bernard Brodie (1978). “The Development of Nuclear Strategy”, University of California LA Center for

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• Numberless have been the systems of iniquity contrived by the great for the gratification of this passion in themselves; but in none of them were they ever more successful than in the invention and establishment of the canon and the feudal law.

  John Adams

  Success, Passion, Law

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.449

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• Education has to be welcomed as a Spiritual Practice for the establishment of Peace in the individual heart as well as in society including the human commonwealth.

  Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Educational, Heart

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• While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of respectable people we have restored their faith in their religion and in their priests. The union of the Evangelical Church in a single Church for the whole Reich, the Concordat with the Catholic Church, these are but milestones on the road which leads to the establishment of a useful relation and a useful co operation between the Reich and the two Confessions.

  Adolf Hitler

  Party, Two, People

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• What we're doing is saying what happens with the establishment and how are we as ordinary human beings are used as pawns. What do we really know about what goes on! We think we are a democracy.... Are we? I'm not so sure.

  David Suchet

  Thinking, Democracy, Ordinary

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.

  Tom Hayden

  Buddhist, New York, Guy

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• Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives. But the art establishment branded him an 'illustrator', a sentimental one at that. Real artists, they said were doing art for art's sake, not for the sake of the bourgeois public. Real artists were putting swiggles, smears or daubs of paint on the canvas. They were doing 'innovative' and 'creative' work. If they were hideous and grotesque; we know that's what life really is!

  Bill Bonner

  Art, Real, Careers

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• The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of societies run by and for the working class in the two great communist revolutions in Russia and China.

  Grover Furr

  Running, Russia, Class

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• No one, and the liberal cognoscenti least of all, wants to look at why, after decades of throwing money at a rotting educational establishment and years of racial preferences black students are worse off than ever.

  Wesley Pruden

  Educational, Years, Black

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• Face the facts, all these environmental organizations are thirty, forty, fifty years old. They have big buildings, big obligations, big staffs. They may trade on their youthful dreams, but the truth is, they're now part of the establishment. And the establishment works to preserve the status quo. It just does.

  Michael Crichton

  Dream, Years, Organization

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• New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books that they have not even read, with assuredness of Jehova.

  James Purdy

  New York, Book, Broken

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Writing, Enemy, Never Forget

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• Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. Pbscene is not the picture of a naked woman who exposes her pubic hair but that of a fully clad general who exposes his medals rewarded in a war of aggression; obscene is not the ritual of the Hippies but the declaration of a high dignitary of the Church that war is necessary for peace.

  Herbert Marcuse

  War, Hippie, Hair

  Herbert Marcuse (1971). “An Essay on Liberation”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

  Charles Stross

  War, Believe, Writing

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• Well, it's not just money. I consider myself establishment right now. I'm borderline establishment, I'm hanging on by my toenails - but I'm establishment.

  Dennis Hopper

  Hanging On, Toenails, Wells

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am personally overseeing changes that include the establishment of a global health emergency workforce.

  Margaret Chan

  Emergencies, Workforce, Global Health

  "Are We Prepared? An Exclusive Interview with WHO Director-General Margaret Chan". “Next Outbreak” with Joanne Silberner, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2015.

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• European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Israel, Holocaust, Palestine

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand translated by Christopher Sultan, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive-right, left, and in the middle.

  W. C. Fields

  Giving, Middle, Unethical

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• Intellectual respectability required mental health, and it was becoming evident to me by then that "mental health" consisted of trusting everyone about everything as much as possible - and, for good measure, poking fun at anyone who didn't. Especially to be trusted were the mass media, whose owners and personnel were not to be regarded as minions of the Establishment because, as they themselves used to attest with confidence, there was no Establishment in the United States of America. Only foreigners and paranoids believed (otherwise).

  Kerry Thornley

  Fun, Media, America

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• It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Evil, Reform, Improvement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.314, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small, now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas.

  Bernie Sanders

  Brother, Thinking, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Bernie Sanders from Sep 02, 2015

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• The message is resonating, not just in Wisconsin, but all over America, the people are sick and tired of establishment politics, establishment economics. They want real change.

  Bernie Sanders

  Change, Real, Tired

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• I was a very, very establishment person prior to wanting to run.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Persons

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• For Jesus, it is clear, poverty is not the problem; it is the solution. Until human beings learn to live in naked contact and direct simplicity and equality with each other, sharing all resources, there can be no solution to the misery of the human condition and no establishment of God's kingdom. Jesus' radical and paradoxical sense of who could and who could not enter the Kingdom is even more clearly illustrated by his famous praise of children.

  Andrew Harvey

  Jesus, Children, Simplicity

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• The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing power, and more sophisticated techniques used by establishment mass media to falsify, misrepresent, misquote, rule out of consideration as a priori ridiculous, or simply ignore and blot out of existence: data, books, discoveries that they consider prejudicial to establishment interest.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Discovery, Media

  William S. Burroughs (1979). “Ah Pook is here, and other texts”, Calder Publications Limited

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