System Quotes

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And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings… — Oprah Winfrey
We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever… — Elwyn Brooks White
It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want… — John Taylor Gatto
The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual… — Horace Mann
A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management. — Malcolm Knowles
Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated,… — Robert M. Pirsig
Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that… — Ayn Rand
The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called… — John Taylor Gatto
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we… — Carl Rogers
I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system so everybody could drink it and we would… — Jamie Foxx
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions of… — Thomas Berry
The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating… — Leo Tolstoy
In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever… — Matthew Yglesias
There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable. — James Monroe
The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not. — Unknown Author
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. — Mark B. Cohen
There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political… — Walter Wriston
We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for… — Ani DiFranco
Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s.… — Gore Vidal

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