System Quotes

5175 quotes by 3281 authors

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are… — Gloria Steinem
Under any system of society ... the family holds the future in its bosom. — Charles Franklin Thwing
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual… — Ayn Rand
Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should have… — Naomi Klein
We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government. — Zoe Lofgren
Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the… — Abraham Lincoln
The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism. — George E. P. Box
There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution of any real,… — Michael Behe
There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all… — Sandra Bullock
The real danger of the gay movement is its necessary goal of the elimination of this moral system in order to achieve this [sexual freedom] — Scott Lively
The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America,… — C. Wright Mills
For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was… — Aldous Huxley
Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex. — Julian Barnes
I understood when I was just a child that without water, everything dies. I didn't understand until much later that no one "owns" water. It… — Marq de Villiers
Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get… — Peter Senge
It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation… — William Sloane Coffin
People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We can then make… — Dalai Lama
The moment you accept that there's a guidance system supporting you, then you experience a new sense of freedom and peace. — Gabrielle Bernstein
If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse… — Carl Safina

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