System Quotes

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Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to… — Noam Chomsky
People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth's life support system, it shapes climate and weather.… — Sylvia Earle
After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds. — Malcolm X
In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation. — Cesar Chavez
Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its… — Cesar Chavez
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only… — Cesar Chavez
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a… — Charles Caleb Colton
I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit… — Sonia Sotomayor
America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black ghettos - the… — Malcolm X
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they… — Ronald Reagan
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect. — James Madison
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. — Samuel Johnson
The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system. — Thomas Paine
The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected as… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good… — Robert A. Heinlein
Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at… — Susan Sontag
Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise,… — Joseph Conrad

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