System Quotes

5175 System quotes by 3168 unique authors

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. — Barney Frank
Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care… — Thomas Frank
In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for… — Al Franken
Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily… — Jacque Fresco
The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system. — Kinky Friedman
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the… — Milton Friedman
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. — Milton Friedman
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of… — Milton Friedman
I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most… — Milton Friedman
What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is… — Sigmar Gabriel
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a… — John W. Gardner
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to… — Bill Gates
There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. — Bill Gates
I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted… — Henry Louis Gates
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. — Henry Louis Gates
Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even… — Henry Louis Gates
For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system… — John Taylor Gatto
Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and… — Timothy Geithner
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace… — William Gibson
We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the… — Newt Gingrich
I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm… — Michel Gondry
America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies. — Al Gore
Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American… — Al Gore

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