System Quotes
5175 quotes by 3168 authors
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For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field'…
— C. Wright Mills
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For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same…
— Bertrand Russell
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We are completely void of anything to do with God. Teachers can't touch a child - even to hug a crying child. Young boys are…
— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
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The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.
— Albert Einstein
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Love is infectious. You know, God is infectious-God flowing through us and us being little-baby creators and s--. But His energy and His love and…
— Kanye West
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It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.
— Michael Parenti
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Global poverty is an input on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.
— Michel Chossudovsky
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There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.
— Jim McDermott
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Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard…
— Archibald Cox
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The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.
— Phil Donahue
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And suddenly, I realized the system that I was in did not know what intelligence was, didn't know how to identify smart and not smart.…
— Tony Buzan
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Modern research has shown that your eye-brain system is thousands of times more complex and powerful than had previously been estimated, and that with proper…
— Tony Buzan
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Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves…
— Tracy Kidder
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The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be…
— Vandana Shiva
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Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.
— Sheldon Richman
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Among other grand achievements, F. A. Hayek had a remarkable career pointing out the flaws in collectivism. One of his keenest insights was that, paradoxically,…
— Sheldon Richman
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Oxygen plays a pivotal role in the proper functioning of the immune system. We can look at oxygen deficiency as the single greatest cause of…
— Stephen Levine
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
— Ed Rendell
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