System Quotes
5175 quotes by 3168 authors
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
— Adam Hochschild
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I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social…
— Paul Sarbanes
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The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another; and another…
— Garrett Hardin
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There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion.
— Donella Meadows
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We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized,
— Nouriel Roubini
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I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the…
— Ben Bernanke
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A state is organic when it has a center, and this center is an idea that shapes the various domains of life in an efficacious…
— Julius Evola
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Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets,
— Donald Berwick
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I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.
— Steven Biko
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The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as…
— Eric Hobsbawm
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Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.
— Eric Hobsbawm
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The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system
— Eric Hobsbawm
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The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of uncertainty has entered…
— Unknown Author
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But Al Jazeera America represents something more than news that isn’t profit or ratings driven — they represent foreign investment in a country where the…
— John Fugelsang
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Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking…
— Bill Mollison
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Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes…
— Bill Mollison
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War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It’s going…
— Jacque Fresco
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What kind of competition is there in your body? Suppose your brain said ' I'm the most important organ, and the liver said 'I am,…
— Jacque Fresco
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If you want your children to relate to the culture you live in, if you want to train them outside of the general system, you…
— Jacque Fresco
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We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our…
— Jacque Fresco
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