System Quotes

5175 System quotes by 3168 unique authors

Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Â Almost every thing we do… — Jacque Fresco
In my work, I am not attempting to predict the future. Â I am only pointing out what is possible with the intelligent application and… — Jacque Fresco
The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system. — Jacque Fresco
We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages. — Jacque Fresco
People say that the monetary system produces incentive. Â This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy,… — Jacque Fresco
You can't exceed the system with language. Â You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better. Â You can't exceed… — Jacque Fresco
In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible, so… — Jacque Fresco
Each system will depend on resources available, not from the bottom up or top down. In other words, if you put 500 passengers in an… — Jacque Fresco
Every system tries to get people to conform to support that system. That goes for communism, socialism, free enterprise, or any other civilization. If they… — Jacque Fresco
In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%)… — Philip Gourevitch
Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests… — Leonid Brezhnev
Given a situation, a system with a Leerstelle [a gap], whether a given completion (Lueckenfuellung) does justice to the structure, is the "right" one, is… — Max Wertheimer
To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the… — Michel Houellebecq
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and… — Galen
But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported… — David Frum
Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The… — Tina Brown
The superior freedom of the capitalist system, its superior justice, and its superior productivity are not three superiorities, but one. The justice follows from the… — Henry Hazlitt
All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the most free and open system we've… — Mitch McConnell
I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his… — Mike DeWine
While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right… — Barry Goldwater
Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood. — Walter Brueggemann
Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the… — Walter Brueggemann
It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves… — Marilynne Robinson
CEOs are paid for doing a terrible job. If the system wasn't so messed up, guys like me wouldn't make this kind of money. — Carl Icahn
We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and… — Eduardo Galeano

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