System Quotes

5175 System quotes by 3168 unique authors

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference. — Ludwig von Mises
I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light… — Johann Heinrich Lambert
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit. — Alexander Hamilton
Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system. — Alan K. Simpson
I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only product that's worth investing in is a fully functional musculoskeletal system. It's no luxury but rather a basic necessity that's within everyone's reach. — Pete Egoscue
Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow… — R. Buckminster Fuller
I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian. — Edmund Barton
The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting… — Edmund Barton
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if… — Edmund Barton
Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it… — Thomas Carlyle
Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to… — Alain de Botton
Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines… — Erich Fromm
Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively)… — Daniel J. Boorstin
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for… — Daniel J. Boorstin
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it… — Harper Lee
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function,… — Gilbert Adair
When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left… — Gore Vidal
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a… — Sigmund Freud
The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system. — Sigmund Freud
But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean liner that sails across the ocean from… — Colin Powell

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