System Quotes

5175 quotes by 3168 authors

Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if… — Philip K. Dick
In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to… — Spider Robinson
a mother's death also means the loss of the consistent, supportive family system that once supplied her with a secure home base, she then has… — Hope Edelman
I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do. — Malorie Blackman
Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus… — Aleister Crowley
He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished… — Brian Selznick
Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not just for distraction,… — Penelope Lively
To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how… — Alan Bennett
A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills — Amiri Baraka
I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[...] I didn't want to live and die in the same place with… — Jeanette Winterson
Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all. — Alain de Botton
Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man. — Thomas Jefferson
Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government — Graham Chapman
Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of… — Michel Foucault
It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system. — Ellen DeGeneres
What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest… — Gail Carriger
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that… — Noam Chomsky
Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled skin of an… — Jack Kornfield
You have to be a warrior and say, "Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine." (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads) — Anne Lamott

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