System Quotes

5175 System quotes by 3168 unique authors

Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have… — Ronald Reagan
The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is… — Simon Bolivar
The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce… — James Madison
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the… — George Steiner
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system. — R. Buckminster Fuller
The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order. — Henry A. Kissinger
Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The… — Edward de Bono
The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy… — Flann O'Brien
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory… — Cyril Connolly
An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible… — Louis de Bernieres
Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic biological urges than… — Desmond Morris
Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of… — Konrad Lorenz
Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it necessary… — Eugene V. Debs
I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired… — Damon Runyon
Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels. — Jim Ryun
Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are… — Esther Dyson
The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet… — Milton Friedman
Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean,… — Paul Hawken
You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system. — Ice T
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect… — Barbra Streisand
When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did. — Roddy Doyle
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V. — Bill Joy
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive. — Bill Joy
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in… — Ludwig von Mises

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