System Quotes
5175 quotes by 3168 authors
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Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.
— John Steinbeck
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The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc.,…
— Michael Pollan
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It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it .…
— Marilynne Robinson
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I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully)…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Now that system has weakened to the point he and his worst disciples are able to be free. He wants total mayhem and bloodshed. Most…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood elevating and pain-killing…
— Patch Adams
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There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.)…
— William Goldman
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The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.
— Che Guevara
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You’ve got to be kidding me. I thought you were the most powerful of beings. Even the gods fear you. (Stryker) We all have predators.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.
— John Kennedy Toole
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hate blows a bubble of despair into hugeness world system universe and bang -fear buries a tomorrow under woe and up comes yesterday most green…
— E E Cummings
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It's like I was connected to the plumping system.
— Rick Riordan
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I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be…
— Malcolm X
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An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is…
— Christopher Hitchens
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We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the…
— John Green
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We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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