System Quotes
5175 quotes by 3281 authors
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The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.
— Thomas Paine
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As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial of God. It…
— Thomas Paine
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The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an…
— John Hume
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In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't…
— John Hume
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I have a very strong opinion. I'm absolutely against it. I'm against the challenge system. I'm for the way it is right now. Don't change…
— Roger Federer
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Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sectEqual…
— James Madison
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So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free from those vexations…
— Richard Henry Lee
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Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet…
— John Dickinson
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In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of…
— Ida B. Wells
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It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to…
— John Dewey
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I do not oppose the insane asylum — but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to…
— Eugene V. Debs
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This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on…
— R.K. Narayan
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Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.
— Carl Jung
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In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s…
— Erich Fromm
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Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal…
— Jacques Maritain
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to…
— Will Durant
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It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching…
— Michel Foucault
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Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important…
— Michel Foucault
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