Top 260 Establishment Quotes

The establishment thinks we’re the bad guys, and we’re the radicals, but what they don’t realize is we’re actually the last line of defense. After us, it’s the pitchforks.
Cenk Uygur
As a reporter in Israel, I have interviewed hundreds of people in its intelligence and defense establishments and studied thousands of classified documents that revealed a hidden history, surprising even in the context of Israel’s already fierce reputation.
Ronen Bergman
It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.
Franz Boas
One of the things I want to achieve in the potentially short time I’m in Westminster is to stop people thinking we’re all the same. Because while they believe that, the establishment stays in the same people’s hands.
Jess Phillips
The applicability of the Establishment Clause to public funding of benefits to religious schools was settled in Everson v. Board of Ed. of Ewing, which inaugurated the modern era of establishment doctrine.
David Souter
The establishment of Israel was accompanied by much pain and suffering and a real trauma for the Palestinians.
Reuven Rivlin
Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.
Rem Koolhaas
Directors assume I’m, like, establishment.
Rebecca Hall
By and large, the theatre establishment is run by a white majority.
Lynn Nottage
Spike Lee is openly contemptuous of whites and what he implies to be a white establishment out to get him. Lee’s films have grossed in the hundreds of millions. Whites have contributed greatly to this sum, though he seemingly cannot stand them. Hypocritical?
Jesse Lee Peterson
Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can’t be too worried about what they’re told at their country clubs.
Rupert Murdoch
I don't need a certificate of my patriotism from those

I don’t need a certificate of my patriotism from those in the establishment.
Asma Jahangir
If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it’s always white men who do that, and you don’t have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment.
Isabel Allende
I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.
Todd Akin
I won’t eat offal. Once, I was in London at the Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, which is this really fancy eating establishment and hotel, and I almost got conned into eating testicles. It was one of the most delicious meals I’ve ever eaten, about twelve courses. That was one of the courses.
Lucy Punch
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
I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
The reason Jeb Bush is not doing well is because of his name. He is part of a long establishment Republican family, and this is not going well with the Republican Party.
Lois Frankel
I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.
Linford Christie
The British theatre and establishment is so hard to penetrate, and there are so many talented people involved in it. So, to be counted among some of those actresses… It doesn’t get better than that.
Kelly Reilly
Wagner had a terrific understanding of politics. In 1829, he was a Marxist revolutionary who wanted to bring down the establishment. He hated religion and churches, which he said enslaved people. But he later developed different views that put art at the centre of the life of the state.
Michael Portillo
If it was up to me, there wouldn’t be no such thing as the establishment.
Jimi Hendrix
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
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that’s least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.
Tom Hayden
If questioning the results of a presidential election were a crime, as many have asserted in the wake of the controversial 2020 election and its aftermath, nearly the entire Democratic Party and media establishment would have been incarcerated for their rhetoric following the 2016 election.
Mollie Hemingway
I’m interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.
Isabel Allende
The Republican establishment may in fact be so desirous of getting rid of the Tea Party as its base, they may be willing to lose some elections in order to get rid of their base and put up a new base.
Rush Limbaugh
Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.
N. T. Wright
A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.
Glenn Greenwald
I’ve always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.
Heather Brooke
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed… to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
Algernon Sidney
There’s an ideology that’s taken hold of universities, that has taken hold of elite establishments, that is committed to the myth of endemic white racism.
Heather Mac Donald
I’m of the establishment but anti-establishment.
Jonathan Powell
Stating my views on Islam has brought me to court on charges of ‘group insult’ and incitement to racial hatred. I am being tried for voicing opinions that I – and my constituents – consider to be the truth. I am being tried for challenging the views that the ruling establishment wants to impose on us as the truth.
Geert Wilders
On a number of occasions, I have made it clear that Sinn Fein policy was to argue for the establishment of an independent, international truth commission.
Martin McGuinness
The establishment can’t change. It can’t give people anything different; it can’t make the turn.
Jerry Della Femina
It is high time Western establishments stopped blaming Russia for all their problems.
Margarita Simonyan
Communism and fascism were born out of frustration with an establishment that still knew royalty and possessed very few of the characteristics we commonly attribute to democracy today.
Sean Hepburn Ferrer
The Tea Party in the United States’ biggest fight is with the the Republican establishment, which is really a collection of crony capitalists that feel that they have a different set of rules of how they’re going to comport themselves and how they’re going to run things.
Steve Bannon
Obviously I’m not there to pick up anybody, but I’m not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.
Adrien Brody
Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.
Pete Seeger
If you lease a part of your soul in a campaign, Washington, D.C., and the establishment… will think they have an option to buy.
Joe Sestak
I became aware of how the world is and how the white es

I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.
Claudette Colvin
The British establishment sold its soul long ago and welcomes any foreign villain, crook and gangster that has dirty money to invest in the UK, buying luxury homes to fuel the upward spiral of house prices.
Gerard Batten
The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don’t stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don’t rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.
Ted Cruz
There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.
Noam Chomsky
To me, ‘the establishment’ means people who are out of touch with the people they’re elected to represent.
Jimmy Gomez
The ‘White Establishment’ never liked me. I have worked for ‘White Establishment’ newspapers and television networks.
Skip Bayless
At the ‘Vanity Fair’ New Establishment Summit, I asked Alibaba CEO Mike Evans – who has nine kids! – how he does it, as well as Didi President Jean Liu, a mother of three. Evans said he couldn’t do work well without the support of his family and vice versa.
Emily Chang
Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It’s more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.
Jimmy Reid
Our country will be stabilized, with all key establishments in society working in unity with full awareness among Thais of their duties and responsibilities.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
I am not too interested in leaving the street people and joining the Establishment. I prefer street folks.
Tom Noddy
If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.
Glenn Greenwald
Trump has more understanding and insight than his opponents realize. For a man such as Trump to risk acquiring so many powerful enemies and to risk his wealth and reputation, he had to have known that the people’s dissatisfaction with the ruling establishment meant he could be elected president.
Paul Craig Roberts
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.
Johann Most
I am a chef through and through. Everything I do – whether it is cooking for kids in Harlem or cooking in a fine dining establishment – all my days are consumed by food.
Marcus Samuelsson