System Quotes

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Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second coming of Christ,… — Immanuel Wallerstein
To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they… — Immanuel Wallerstein
It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular sovereignty the new… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to… — Immanuel Wallerstein
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth… — Mary McCarthy
We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of an extended and… — Pope Gregory XVI
This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character… — Orson Pratt
In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth... Deeper reflection helps us to discover… — Pope Benedict XVI
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. — George Santayana
Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they want. Of course,… — David McClelland
One of the near-death experience truths is that each person integrates their near-death experience into their own pre-existing belief system. — Jodi Long
There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy.… — Michael Novak
Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system. — Mary Augusta Ward
The financial system as a whole has had the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme if we look at it fundamentally. — Tim Lee
Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies. — John J. Sweeney
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism… — Will Durant
Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic… — David Suzuki
I think we are part of the earth. The concept of the rainforest being the womb of life is something I believe in...the value system… — Ian Cohen
If the aim is globalization without marginalization, we can no longer tolerate a world in which there live side by side the immensely rich and… — Pope John Paul II
The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary… — David Korten

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