System Quotes

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A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices… — Emile Durkheim
How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His… — Joseph Heller
I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is… — Bertrand Russell
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people,… — Gore Vidal
There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool. — Edward Teller
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand… — John Searle
In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist… — Ella Baker
What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems,… — Noam Chomsky
The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is in a sense… — Noam Chomsky
Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations,… — Pete Townshend
A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. — Jean Cocteau
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system… — Noam Chomsky
It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into… — Charles Jaffe
Freedom is a system based on courage. — Charles Peguy
Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many… — Charles Horace Mayo
When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?. — Russell Hoban
Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In spirituality,… — Swami Vivekananda
For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by… — Alexander Hamilton
The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational… — John Ralston Saul

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