Establishment Quotes - Page 8

• Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system

  Giorgio Agamben

  War, Mean, Political

  Giorgio Agamben (2008). “State of Exception”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

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• The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Government, Europe

  Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.232

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• The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.

  Neil Postman

  Acceptance, Membership, Maintaining

  Neil Postman (2009). “Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World”, p.39, Delta

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• The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are not to be broken. If broken, the rules of forgiveness leading to re-establishment are equally of air and iron. I learn these rules with rather less ease than my contemporaries because, in the back streets of my being, a duel is developing and increasing in fervour between my instinct which knows why something is so, and my hen-pecking intelligence which wishes to analyse why something is so.

  Hal Porter

  Art, Air, Iron

  Hal Porter, Mary Lord (1980). “Hal Porter”, Univ of Queensland Pr

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• Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and their result too fallacious to satisfy the mind. It is probably an age too soon to propose the establishment of a system.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Science, Mind, Age

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others. On this subject they are gaining daily in the opinions of nations, and hopeful advances are making towards their re- establishment on an equal footing with the other colors of the human family.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Color, Hopeful

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.219, Rowman & Littlefield

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• With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists.

  Antonin Scalia

  Religious, Atheist, Practice

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.147, Regnery Publishing

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• The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.

  James Madison

  Religion, Atheism, Principles

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.88, University of Virginia Press

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• Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out of conscience. Conscience is cultivated by others, by the vested interests, by the establishment. Consciousness is yours. It is individual, it is not collective. Conscience is part of the mob psychology. Consciousness gives you dignity because it gives you individuality. It gives you rebellion, it makes you capable of saying yes or no of your own accord. There is no foreign agency manipulating you in the name of religion, morality, etcetera.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Agency, Names

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• I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.

  Edward Gibbon

  Taken, Future, Recovery

  'Memoirs of My Life' (1796) ch. 8 (on the completion of 'Decline and Fall')

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• The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people.

  Joseph Story

  Country, Military, Mean

  Joseph Story (2012). “A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof : Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers : with an Appendix, Containing Important Public Documents, Illustrative of the Constitution”, p.265, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• In view of the result of attained at the Washington Treaty which, my advisors believe, guarantee peace in the Pacific for some time to come, it is proposed to reduce the establishment of the navy and army, and postpone the expansion of the air force.

  Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster

  Military, Believe, Army

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• In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is in this sense that American education can be deemed a success.

  Walter E. Williams

  Faithful, Ignorant, Liberty

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• The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Purpose, Life Is

  Twitter post from Feb 17, 2017

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• How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation? The means of security can only be regulated by the means and the danger of attack. They will, in fact, be ever determined by these rules, and by no others . . . . If one nation maintains constantly a disciplined army, ready for service of ambition or revenge, it obliges the most pacific nations who may be within the reach of its enterprises to take corresponding precautions.

  James Madison

  Revenge, War, Ambition

  "Federalist No. 41. General View of the Powers Conferred by the Constitution" by James Madison, www.congress.gov.

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• The handful of corporations that own most of the media outlets have an interest in reflecting establishment views.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Views, Media, Corporations

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• The establishment of the state of Israel is not the result of the Holocaust. It is almost a result of the fact that the Holocaust was not totally successful.

  Yehuda Bauer

  Successful, Israel, Holocaust

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• The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.

  Ivan Illich

  Law, States

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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• I feel like jeans and a T-shirt have become Establishment. Everyone’s dressed down. So actually putting on a jacket is the anti-­Establishment stance.

  Thom Browne

  Jeans, T Shirt, Shirts

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• Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

  John Cotton

  Liberty, Tasks, Fundamentals

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• The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political and economic establishments that exalt the human community while offering no protection to the non-human modes of being. There is an urgent need for a Jurisprudence (system of governance) that recognizes that the well-being of the integral world community is primary, and that human well-being is derivative - an Earth Jurisprudence.

  Thomas Berry

  Offering, Community, Political

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• Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.

  Robert L. Park

  Enough, Persecuted, Alas

  "Cancer doctor under fire for providing false hope to patients". www.foxnews.com. November 18, 2013.

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• All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own.

  Monique Truong

  Glasses, Vintage, People

  Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In different countries the basis of resistance takes different forms, but it comes chiefly from the conservative groups. Hence it becomes increasingly difficult to go on spending in the presence of persisting deficits and rising debt. Some form of spending must be found that will command the support of the conservative groups. Political leaders, embarrassed by their subsidies to the poor, soon learned that one of the easiest ways to spend money is on military establishments and armaments, because it commands the support of the groups most opposed to spending.

  John T. Flynn

  Country, Military, Political

  John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”

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• Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks it impossible for a corrupted people to set up a good government, or for a tyranny to be introduced if they be virtuous; and makes this conclusion, 'That where the matter (that is, the body of the people) is not corrupted, tumults and disorders do not hurt; and where it is corrupted, good laws do no good:' which being confirmed by reason and experience, I think no wise man has ever contradicted him.

  Algernon Sidney

  Wise, Hurt, Men

  Algernon Sidney (1805). “Discourses on Government”, p.83

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