System Quotes

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The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money — Nicholas von Hoffman
The United States has a system of taxation by confession — Hugo Black
Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. — Noam Chomsky
I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people,… — Hubert H. Humphrey
That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for… — Robert Musil
Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument; it means effort… — Wolfgang Thierse
One day we'll have a system that includes the rights of the people to make money and keep it, rather than a system where you… — Stuart Wilde
Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people — Ron Holland
Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists? — Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by… — Noam Chomsky
It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A system where individuals… — Keith Preston
Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed. — Muhammad Iqbal
The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing… — Dennis Holme Robertson
You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Marriage is the internationally recognised system of relationship recognition. It is the global language of love. When we were young, most of us dreamed of… — Peter Tatchell
Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world. — Ronald Coase
The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious to exploit the… — Douglass North
We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets. — Eugene V. Debs
Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the… — George Bernard Shaw

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