I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state. - Thomas Jefferson
Tyrants are obvious, and easy to identify. It is the well entrenched and corrupt establishment that is truly insidious. - A.E. Samaan
Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square. - Sydney J. Harris
College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line. - Bill Gaede
Do you realize why is it I'm so driven to operate within the Establishment? It's vengeance. 'Hope I die before I get old' is something I still have to live with, but not for the reason many people think. I have to be very, very vigilant not to become one of those people I despised. - Pete Townshend
The people who oppose your ideas the most are those who represent the establishment that your ideas will upset.
(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts. - Galileo Galilei
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason. - Immanuel Kant
Liza considering back-peddling but thought about her empty bank account. That’ll be fine, sir. I don’t wear skirts anyway.He hmphed as though he suspected she might also be inclined to burn her bra on the courthouse steps and snapped, No jeans either, this is a professional establishment. - Gwenn Wright
War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security. - Gustave de Molinari
True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person. - Willard F. Libby
If winning hearts and minds matter in Balochistan than the military and civil establishment are doing everything to loose on that end. - Arzak Khan
Bureaucracy: A contentious rumble toward the establishment of authoritarian rule. - Albert Thomas Bifarelli