System Quotes

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Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses. — Tom Robbins
America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it… — Jonah Goldberg
My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated into… — Henry Miller
A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order… — Clifford D. Simak
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for… — Noam Chomsky
The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain. — Peter HÃ¸eg
I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, â€˜delusionsâ€™ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry… — Thomas Pynchon
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. Theyâ€™re operated as holding pensâ€”miniature… — Barack Obama
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set… — Virginia Woolf
If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be… — Miranda July
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
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place… — Carl Sagan
For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which… — Virginia Woolf
There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from… — Ayn Rand
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules… — Frank Herbert
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or… — Thomas Jefferson
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even spiritual experience, moderates… — Sam Harris
Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system — P.J. O'Rourke
Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is… — Tom Robbins
I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every… — Sherman Alexie

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