System Quotes
5175 System quotes by 3168 unique authors
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A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and…
— Woodrow Wilson
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William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any…
— Unknown Author
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There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.
— John Kricfalusi
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I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The…
— Don Bluth
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Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a…
— Friedrich Engels
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The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including…
— Noam Chomsky
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The whole educational and professional training system...
— Noam Chomsky
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Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools…
— Noam Chomsky
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I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about -- police and…
— Michael Connelly
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The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a…
— Jules Henry
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Its time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start…
— Herb Kohl
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In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this…
— John Trudell
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It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread…
— Iain Banks
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We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still…
— Sylvia Earle
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I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought…
— Steve Wozniak
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Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that system fails victims…
— Jaclyn Friedman
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Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six…
— Michel Houellebecq
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Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome food. With a…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot…
— Marcel Proust
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In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief…
— Martin Seligman
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I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or…
— John Brown
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Im not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the…
— Sebastian Coe
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The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among religions with regard…
— Romain Rolland
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Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged in America during…
— Thomas Paine
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