System Quotes

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Health care is a far more serious, immediate and destructive problem than social security. . . . The upfront investment needed to fund system wide… — Unknown Author
It's not logical that we boast the most advanced and powerful internationally integrated economy in the world, then claim organizational incompetence and poverty when it… — Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Some determined advocates of the vegetable system maintain, that the teeth and stomach of the monkey correspond, in structure, very closely with that of man,… — Sarah Josepha Hale
In a government like ours, the Crown is the abiding and unshakable element in government; politicians may come and go, but the Crown remains and… — Robertson Davies
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess. — Unknown Author
When money, instead of man, is at the center of the system, when money becomes an idol, men and women are reduced to simple instruments… — Pope Francis
Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we… — Stephen Jay Gould
If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse. — George Carlin
You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One… — Michael Beschloss
Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system… — Unknown Author
The welfare system in this country has literally crippled millions. It has gotten people bound and gagged so that they cannot get off it. It… — Shelton Smith
Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and, since… — E.C. Riegel
"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the… — Thomas Jefferson
The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own… — Ludwig von Mises
Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force that… — Frederic Bastiat
Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It's in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control. Namely, the kind… — Noam Chomsky
There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the word… — Noam Chomsky
I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as the subject of… — Ward Churchill
The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his hand in skilled… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation… — George Will

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