#establishment

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#corrupting #establishment #life #make #more

Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment. ↗

— Adrien Brody

#anybody #establishment #gay #hang #i

The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#because #black #black community #community #deeper

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it. ↗

— Art Buchwald

#enough #establishment #hard #long #make

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#between #confusion #constitutes #decay #error

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#declare #diminishing #england #establishments #falls

I suggest that instead of criticising us, the establishment has a bloody good look at itself. ↗

— Trisha Goddard

#establishment #good #i #instead #itself

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

#applying #arsenal #concept #establishment #expressions

The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places. ↗

— E. Digby Baltzell

#men

The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology. ↗

— Michael J. Findley

#ancient-governments #culture #establishment-of-religion #history #non-fiction