#establishment

The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal. ↗

— Richard K. Morgan

#inspirational #kickass #business

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#caprice #conditions #constant #establishment #events

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

#constitutional #constitutional government #different #different sets #establishment

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#begun #black #establishment #free #goal

I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#i #interested #obstacles #overcome #people

The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry. ↗

— Curt Flood

#baseball #establishment #permissive

Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#come #delay #establishment #heal #how

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation. ↗

— George McGovern

#away #cancer #center #cruelest #disaster

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration. ↗

— Alan Mollohan

#clinton #clinton administration #coincides #community #cops

We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces. ↗

— John Negroponte

#american #bolster #center #central #doing