System Quotes

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We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should. — Kurt Vonnegut
One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it. — Peter Cook
God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims are always causing… — Yann Martel
As one individual changes, the system changes. — Ram Dass
He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the… — Flannery O'Connor
After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need… — Tim Wise
Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their lossesâ€¦in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles,… — Ralph Nader
I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the system.… — Howard Zinn
Thereâ€™s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and thereâ€™s Feminism and Hedonism, and thereâ€™s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system… — Tony Hoagland
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after… — Boris Pasternak
As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far… — Richard Matheson
Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system. — Derrick Jensen
Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony. — Barbara Kingsolver
Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because… — Theodore Kaczynski
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful… — Sigmund Freud
The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery… — Jacob Bronowski
The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers — William S. Burroughs
A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we ought to live.… — Daisaku Ikeda
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules â€” and still there are some misfits… — Kurt Vonnegut

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