Present System Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own…
— John Playfair
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With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only…
— Albert Einstein
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When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital…
— Thurgood Marshall
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The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist. Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding…
— John Bates Clark
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Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.
— Nigel Calder
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The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is…
— Dixie Lee Ray
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The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to…
— Joseph Campbell
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The present system is unsustainable. The only question is whether we will master the change or it will master us.
— Hillary Clinton
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I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.
— Joseph Sobran
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The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.
— Frank Dobson
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Strictly speaking, it probably is not “necessary†for the federal government to tax anyone directly; it could simply print the money it needs. However, that…
— Ron Paul
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Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.
— Daniel Schorr
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Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young people's unrest-in other words there must be created an adult unrest…
— William O. Douglas
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It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation…
— Walter Cronkite
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The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false;…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in…
— James Larkin
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Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring…
— Paulo Freire
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The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety…
— Carter G. Woodson
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If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we…
— Carl Rogers
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This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.
— Pauline Hanson
Who Wrote These Present System Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Present System Quotes as follows: