Establishment Quotes

“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace by man is absolute control of all wrongs. Bully-cultures find this: with each and every mistake, another village idiot is shamed into nothingness and mindlessly shut down by the herd. This is a superficial peace made by force and by fear, one in which there is no freedom to breathe; and the reason it is impossible for man to maintain freedom and peace for everyone at the same time. Christ, on the other hand, transforms, instead of controls, by instilling his certain inner peace. This is the place where one realizes that only his holiness is and feels like true freedom, rather than like imprisonment, and, too, why Hell, I imagine, a magnified version of man's never-ending conflict between freedom and peace, would be the flesh's ultimate utopia - yet its ultimate regret.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It does strange things to you to realize that the conservative establishment is forcing you to be a progressive liberal fighter for universal rights.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Perfect State

“In the United States there is a unique blend of patriotism indoctrination from the pulpit which blends establishment controls into the religious ideology. This way, to question the establishment is to question God, therefore one’s patriotism and salvation is contingent on their submission to the state.”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies

“By the 2016 American election, it was clear America was ready for change.

By nominating Trump, the Republican Party had rejected the Republican establishment.

By electing Trump, the country rejected the entire Washington establishment—Republican and Democrat alike...”
― K.T. McFarland

“CALVIN: The problem with rock'n'roll is that the generation that created it is now the establishment.

Rock pretends it's still rebellious with its video posturing, but who believes it? The stars are 45-year-old zillionaires or they endorse soft drinks! The "Revolution" is a capitalist industry! Give me a break.

Fortunately, I've found some protest music for TODAY'S youth! This stuff really offends Mom and Dad!

HOBBES: Easy-listening Muzak?

CALVIN: I play it real quiet, too.
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― Bill Watterson, The Days Are Just Packed

“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

“God opens the door so that we can establish His kingdom on earth”
― Sunday Adelaja

“We must know how to properly manage the abundance of God’s riches that He will give to those who are ready to establish His Kingdom on this earth”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Cultural Marxism, now called "Political Correctness" is a loaded gun that one puts to their own head. The narrative illusion normalizes the abnormal and is an elitist weapon over minions for citizen vs. citizen policing for establishment control.”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies

“Establish a system of rewards and punishments”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Eradicating ignorance through the establishment of information centers.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“Kima Greggs: I've always been a bit of the antiestablishment side of things. I had very radical opinions about capitalism and the corporate structure.”
― Jonathan Abrams, All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire

“At a deeper level what this whole exchange revealed to me was something disturbing about the way science works. I hadn't quite grasped the role of fear before. But I could see it in action everywhere here: fear of being 'noticed and monitored by colleagues,' fear of unwanted negative celebrity, fear of indignity, fear of loss of reputation, fear of loss of career--and not for committing some terrible crime but simply for exploring unorthodox possibilities and undertaking 'somewhat controversial research' into what everyone agrees were extraordinary events 12,800 years ago.
Worse still, this pervasive state of fear has somehow ingrained itself so deeply into the fabric of science that those who have embraced unorthodox possibilities themselves are often among the least willing to consider unorthodox possibilities embraced by others--lest by doing so they 'contaminate' their own preferred unorthodoxy.
How will it ever be possible to discover the truth about the past when so much fear gets in the way?”
― Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

“Since my first research visit to Malta in November 1999 I've learned that objects -- and even places -- of archaeological importance can and do disappear here in mysterious ways. For example, ancient remains of an estimated 7000 people were found in the Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni, buried in a matrix of red earth, when it was excavated by Sir Themistocles Zammit at the beginning of the twentieth century. Today only six skulls are left, stashed out of public view in two plastic crates in the cavernous vaults of Malta's National Museum of Archaeology. Nobody has the faintest idea what has happened to all the rest of the bones. They've just 'vanished', according to officials at the Museum.
And the six skulls? After much pressure and protest I have been allowed to see them only this morning and they are -- I must confess -- extremely and unsettlingly odd. They are weirdly elongated -- dolichocephalic is the technical term but this is dolichocephalism of the most extreme form. And one of the skulls, though that of an adult, is entirely lacking in the fossa median -- the clearly-visible 'join' that runs along the top of the head where two plates of bone are separated in infancy (thus facilitating the process of birth) but later join together in adulthood. I should be paying attention to the fantastic views and seascapes unfolding beneath the helicopter but I keep on wondering: what would people with skulls like that have looked like during life? How could they have survived birth and grown to adulthood? And did the other skulls from the Hypogeum -- the lost skulls, the lost bones -- also show the same distinctive peculiarity?”
― Graham Hancock, Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

“If a failure to preserve and consider potentially controversial evidence has frustrated a full understanding of the Hypogeum, then the same is also true for the megalithic temples and even the prehistoric cave sites in Malta. Thus, Mifsud points out that archaeologists excavating Ghar Dalam cave in the early twentieth century [...] 'discovered several knives, scrapers, borers and burins in previously undisturbed deposits, and although stratigraphically Pleistocene, they have been arbitrarily attributed to the Neolithic'.”
― Graham Hancock, Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

“Soon after the news broke about these published conclusions [regarding the evidence of a Palaeolithic human presence on Malta] and their stark contradiction of the orthodox view on Malta's prehistory, the Italian team distanced itself from its initial Palaeolithic leanings and claimed instead that the depictions in Ghar Hasan are 'out of context' -- which indeed they are if one is only prepared to countenance a Neolithic context for the earliest human presence in Malta.
Another development at about the same time was that the Ghar Hasan cave began to be vandalized, and the paintings defaced or completely removed, a process that continued over a long period. The result, which would have caused an international furore anywhere else but Malta, is that today:
'The only depictions which have survived, unless more are obscured by stalagmitic material on the cavern walls, are the two handprints in red pigment in Gallery D ... Vandalism not of the popular type has destroyed and obscured the entire repertoire of images on the accessible areas.”
― Graham Hancock, Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

“So what was going on in Malta that led to all this? Why did the first megalithic temple-builders in the world choose to make things so difficult for themselves? Why didn't they start with small megaliths (if that is not too serious a contradiction in terms)? Why didn't they start simple? Why did they plunge straight into the very complicated stuff, like Gigantija and the Hypogeum? And, having plunged, how did they manage to produce such magnificent results? Was it beginner's luck? Or were their achievements as humanity's pioneering architects the product of some sort of heritage?
Beginner's luck is possible, but having studied the earliest temples, and their level of perfection, archaeologists agree that heritage is the right answer. The only problem is what heritage? And where is it to be looked for? Since it is the received wisdom that no human beings lived on Malta before 5200 BC, and since this is a 'fact' that is at present unquestioned anywhere within conventional scholarship, archaeologists from roughly the mid-twentieth century onwards have simply seen no reason to explore the possibility that the heritage of the Maltese temples might be older than 5200 BC. To do so would be the research equivalent of an oxymoron -- like breeding dodos, trying to conduct an interview with William Shakespeare or seeking evidence that the earth is flat -- and would invite the ridicule of one's peers.”
― Graham Hancock, Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

“Mifsud notes that J. D. Evans had graduated from Cambridge in 1949 and that in the early 1950s he was 'in desperate need of a PhD'. The thesis that the future Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of London chose to develop, influenced by the Italian archaeologist Barnarbo Brea, was that the very first human inhabitants of the previously unpeopled Malta had been immigrants from the Neolithic Stentinello culture of Sicily -- a theory that is still part of the conventional academic wisdom about Malta today. In pursuing this thesis, Mifsud suggests, it was not convenient to the young Evans to have to deal with the evidence of the Ghar Dalam teeth that suggested a prior, Palaeolithic, human presence in Malta.
This, then, either as a conscious or unconscious motive, could explain why Evans was so vehement in his attacks on the antiquity of the taurodonts [that could belong to Neanderthals] and so economical with the truth in his published statements about them. He wanted them out of the way -- permanently -- of his own theory about Malta's first inhabitants.”
― Graham Hancock, Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

“Traditions, with all their folksy redolences, are relatively safe matters for scholars to speculate about. Maps and nautical charts on the other hand -- especially accurate, sophisticated maps of the kind used by Guzarate to chart Vasco da Gama's course from Malindi to Calicut in 1498 -- are quite another matter. If maps have indeed come down to us containing recognizable representations of Ice Age topography -- as arguably may be the case with the depictions of India and of the long-submerged Sundaland peninsula by Cantino and Reinal and with the depiction of the 'Golden Chersonese' by Ptolemy -- then prehistory cannot be as it has hitherto been presented to us.
If they are what they seem, such maps mean a lost civilization. Nothing more. Nothing less.”
― Graham Hancock, Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

“On 16 January 2002 India's Minister of Science and Technology released the first results of carbon-dating of the artefacts from the flooded cities of the Gulf of Cambay. The results date the artifacts to 9500 years ago -- 5000 years older than any city so far recognized by archaeologists.”
― Graham Hancock, Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

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তোর দীর্ঘ চিঠি পেলাম । তোর মানসিক অবস্হা জেনে যথেষ্ট কষ্ট পেয়েছি। শক্তিকে আমরাই এত বড় করে তুলেছি । এর মূল দায়িত্ব তোর, আমার ও মলয়ের । এবং এখনো আমার প্রতিটি বন্ধুকে বড় করেই তুলতে চাই আমি । শক্তিকে লেখার জন্য প্রাথমিক উৎসাহ তুইই দিয়েছিলি । বারেবারে বাহবা দিয়ে “বাংলাদেশের শ্রেষ্ঠ কবি” একথা তুইই প্রথম তুলেছিস । অর্থাৎ শুধু এই যে আজ শক্তি সেকথা নিজে বলছে । চাইবাসায় থাকতেই তোকে বাদ দিয়ে শিল্পের সিংহাসনে বসার একটা ঘোরতর প্ল্যান উৎপল ও শক্তি অনেকদিন আগেই করেছিল । আমাকেও উপস্হিত থাকতে হয়েছিল এই সব আলোচনায় । পত্রিকা বের করার প্ল্যান তখনই হয়। আন্দোলনের ব্যাপারটাও মলয় বারবার তাগাদা দিতে থাকে । আমি বরাবরই কৃত্তিবাসকে ছাড়তে পারব না জানিয়েছি । নানান সেন্টিমেন্টাল কারণে কৃত্তিবাসকে আমি আমার নিজের পত্রিকা মনে করি । অনেকের মতন ‘সুনীলের কাগজ’ মনে করা সম্ভব নয় । শক্তি ও উৎপল তোকে বাদ দিয়ে ‘জেব্রা’ বার করতে পারবে কিনা মনে হয় না । অন্তত মলয় এটা হতে দেবে না। তাছাড়া সমস্ত নীচতার মধ্যেও সূক্ষ্ম বোধশক্তির দংশন শক্তিও এড়াতে পারবে না । আমাদের মধ্যে একটা ভাঙন গড়ে উঠবে এ আমার বিশ্বাস হয় না । হলে শক্তিরই প্রচণ্ড ক্ষতি হবে । টাকাপয়সার দরকার ওর শিল্পের জন্যও, শীলাও আছে, দার্শনিক ঋণও প্রয়োজন, সমীর ও মলয়কে ও সেইসঙ্গে সুনীলকে বাদ দিলে যে মারাত্মক অবস্হায় ও পড়বে তা ও জানে । আমাকে শক্তি লিখেছে ‘জেব্রা’য় তোর লেখা থাকছে । বেরোতে নাকি মাস দুয়েক দেরি । বরং উৎপলই একটু বেশিমাত্রায় তোর বিরোধী । হয়তো ঈর্ষা, হয়তো অন্য কোনো কারণ । উৎপলকে খুশি রাখতে গিয়ে হয়তো এই সব জটিলতায় শক্তি বাধ্য হচ্ছে । মলয়ের অভিমান এই যে তুই ওকে বিন্দুমাত্র স্নেহ করিস না ; নিতান্ত ছেলেমানুষী । সেবার শীলা পাটনায় ভর্তি হতে গেলে শক্তিকে পাটনায় নিয়ে যাই আমি । সেখানে মলয় ওকে এই আন্দোলন সম্পর্কে Convince করে । ছোটোগল্পে লিখেছে যে গল্পটা, তারই প্লট ও প্ল্যান মলয় শক্তিকে দেয় ( ক্ষুৎকাতর আক্রমণ )। ঠিক হয় যে কলকাতায় গিয়ে পুস্তিকা বের করে ব্যাপারটা আরম্ভ হবে । আমরা সবাই থাকবো। তুইও নিশ্চয়ই । আমাদের পরবর্তী নির্দেশের অপেক্ষা না করেই শক্তি কলকাতায় ফিরেই ব্যাপারটা আরম্ভ করে দেয় । এদিকে ট্রেনিং-এ চলে আসতে হয় আমাকে । মলয় পাটনায় । কলকাতায় শক্তি একা নানান ভাবে নিজের স্বপক্ষে সিংহাসন গড়ে তোলে ক্রমে । তুই ব্যাপারটায় যোগ না দেওয়ায়, যেটা ভুল-বোঝাবুঝিতে পেছিয়ে গেছে, আজ অবস্হা এখানে এসে দাঁড়িয়েছে। এটা মলয়ও বলেছে ।”
― Samir Roychoudhury

“The problem is made worse by ungodly thinkers who have deliberately networked themselves into positions where they can control the message. They have decided to become the influencers with the most power. They have become what’s called “the establishment” or “the elite.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“Ungodly influencers don’t just hold sway over the scientific establishment, but they also control the majority of the news media, entertainment media, education establishment, fact-checkers, search engines, social media, corporate leadership, book-publishing establishment, libraries, and every other place of influence and power.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“Imagine what we could achieve if everyone were given a proper chance in life rather than being herded, controlled and patronised by the powers that be. Eventually all of the new voices on the internet will amount to a great shout that will bring down the walls of the Power Elite like the tired walls of old Jericho. Don’t let anyone crush your creativity. Don’t let anyone censor you. Don’t let anyone control you. Say No to the Abrahamists. You are not alone.”
― Adam Weishaupt, Is God Evil?

“Wounds, inflicted by truth...no matter how deeply physical or psychological; cannot ever create the grounds for logic in the real world, try...as one might. It just doesn't happen. Period.”
― Mamur Mustapha

“Anyone who wants to overthrow an established power--a government, an army, or even a dominant corporation--must, first and foremost, believe they are fulfilling a kind of historic destiny.”
― Sebastian Junger, Freedom

“Illegitimately and wrongly impeding the establishment's duties and responsibilities in whatever way by politicians, families, colleagues, or friends causes the collapse of the democratic system. Conversely, if the establishment fails to execute the law and rule according to the constitution; consequently, corruption, unlawfulness, and injustice spoil the stability and prosperity of society.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Bonne vent, jolie vent. (Good wind, nice wind, pretty wind.)”
― Joanne Harris, Chocolat

“No one’s standard of living will change, nothing would fundamentally change.”
― Joe Biden