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System Quotes by Immanuel Wallerstein
- On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the other hand an…
- Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite…
- A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point…
- Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.
- What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used (invested) in a…
- To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism.…
- What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was to achieve an…
- This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The system may prolong…
- Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second coming of Christ,…
- To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they…
- It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular sovereignty the new…
- The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to…
More System Quotes
- A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like… — Rudolf Arnheim
- As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence… — Kelly Ayotte
- I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope… — Charles Babbage
- That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it,… — Charles Babbage
- Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character… — Joe Baca
- Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge. — Michele Bachmann
- A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy.… — Michele Bachmann
- One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have… — Ella Baker
- One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of… — Ray Stannard Baker
- I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. — Lucille Ball
- I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the… — Antonio Banderas
- The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where… — Henry Adams