System Quotes

5175 System quotes by 3168 unique authors

Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world… — Charles Stanley
Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to… — Vida Goldstein
I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives… — Vida Goldstein
The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges. — Wallace Smith Broecker
How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people than… — Paul Hawken
The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those… — Dean Koontz
The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we… — David Foreman
Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that is, our genes. It depended… — Malcolm Gladwell
The test of education, apart from the accomplishments that secure places in an artificial system, should be this: Let the man be thrown naked on… — Arthur Lynch
The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are… — Gloria Steinem
Under any system of society ... the family holds the future in its bosom. — Unknown Author
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual… — Ayn Rand
Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should have… — Naomi Klein
We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government. — Zoe Lofgren
Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the… — Abraham Lincoln
The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism. — George E. P. Box
There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution of any real,… — Michael Behe
There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all… — Sandra Bullock
The real danger of the gay movement is its necessary goal of the elimination of this moral system in order to achieve this [sexual freedom] — Scott Lively
The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America,… — C. Wright Mills
For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was… — Aldous Huxley
Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex. — Julian Barnes
I understood when I was just a child that without water, everything dies. I didn't understand until much later that no one "owns" water. It… — Marq de Villiers
Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get… — Peter Senge

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