Established Power Quotes

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

Liberal institutions soon cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established.

The force of microelectronics will blow apart all of the monopolies, hierarchies, pyramids and power grids of established industrial society.

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

I tell my students that the single most powerful thing that we have in this country - something that literally harbors no dissent and no questioning - is the all-powerful elite narrative.

Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

One of the greatest rebels, who I really admire: Christ. He was a rebel. He ended up being crucified. He was a great rebel. He rebelled against the established power that subjugated.

An established power always feels threatened by a rising power.

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.

While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies.

Established systems are inherently hostile to change.

In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established authority.

All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.

The Internet is not kind to established institutions.

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

The establishment isn't new. The establishment not wanting outsiders, not wanting conservatives, isn't anything new.

I'm a change agent. And what we're beginning to see is a lot of the establish people, one more time, trying to stop me.

To be critical of television is almost like questioning the fact of God's existence.

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

There happened in the Middle Ages what has happened so often since then. Those who were the beneficiaries of the established order were bent on defending it, not so much, perhaps, because it guaranteed their interests, as because it seemed to them indispensable to the preservation of society.