Quotes with establishment

  • If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

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  • Bryan Burrough 'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Castle Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Bhagat Singh By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.
    As quoted in Bhagat Singh and His Ideology
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Tryon Edwards Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Albert Ellis If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Art Buchwald If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Benazir Bhutto In 1988, when democracy was restored, the military establishment was still very powerful. The extremist groups were still there. And when the aid and assistance to Pakistan was cut, we had to adopt harsh economic policies. So in a way, it showed that democracy doesn't pay, and the military was able to reassert itself.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Algernon Sydney Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Bill Haslam Men and women motivated by faith have every right and obligation to bring their belief and commitment to the public debate. However, that is very different from the governmental establishment of religion that our founders warned against and our constitution prohibits.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Charles Dickens Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Herbert Marcuse 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.
    Herbert Marcuse
    German political philosopher (1898 - 1979)
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  • Machiavelli One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Campbell Brown Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Campbell Brown 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
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • James Baldwin The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • William S. Burroughs The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Blake Bailey The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.
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  • A. J. P. Taylor There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Jacques Attali Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.
    Jacques Attali
    French economic and social (1943 - )
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