Quotes about system
Harold Edmund Stearns - America And The Young Intellectual
Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves it is the handiwork of terror.
Craig Venter -
Life is a DNA software system.
Felice Picano -
I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.
Steve Earle -
America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.
Nelson Mandela -
I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
Saina Nehwal -
I cannot believe there is caste system in society I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.
Matt Taibbi -
By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.
Enda Kenny -
We have a very long legal system with the European Union, and we're English speaking.
Lindsey Graham -
The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.
Iain Duncan Smith -
A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
David Eagleman -
My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.
Samora Machel -
It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
Alan Dershowitz -
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
Sam Brownback -
Let's create a legal system that can work.
Janet Reno -
The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly.
Sydney Pollack -
No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.
Henry Miller -
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
T.S. Eliot - The Rock
They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.But the man that is shall shadowThe man that pretends to be.
Mildred Blaxter -
Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.
Josh Burggraf - Digestate: A Food & Eating Themed Anthology
Yeah... they tell you to work from the inside, which is perhaps their greatest deception of all...
Steven Magee -
Windows 10 could only have been a worse experience if I had paid for it!
Steven Magee -
The USA states that it can put a man on the moon. I have a hard time believing this, as it is quite clear that they cannot build a simple electrical system that does not make people sick in large numbers!
Diane Chamberlain - and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders
This indignation builds up an accumulation of anger over the many ways I am being reminded by the system then and now of my inferiority. This gradual anger over one humiliation after another may be hard for men to understand and even women who have not had the need to seek redress from perpetrators and who have been allowed to grow as I did in my youth unhindered, protected from male dominated themes like the military."47 (47 - paraphrased from Gurko, Miriram, The Ladies of Seneca Falls; the Bir
Sunday Adelaja -
For a nation to be truly great, she must first identify her national values, enumerate her virtues and formulate her value system. But the most tasking of all these is to develop a culture in her people, that will best represent the proclaimed value systems of the nation.
Sunday Adelaja -
Judgment does not necessarily relate to the judiciary system
Joshua Ferris - Then We Came to the End
I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by the high sentiments of human nature much less by the sentiments of love and heroism but is a system of distrust not of giving, but of taking advantage.
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Nothing threatens a corrupt system more than a free mind.
Scott Adams -
Losers have goals. Winners have systems.
Sunday Adelaja -
To understand the kingdom love is to have changed system
Steven Magee -
The astounding natural beauty of the USA is offset by its extremely poor social security system that is clearly apparent when driving around the country.
Michael Connelly - The Concrete Blonde
If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha - Dictee
I have the documents. Documents, proof, evidence, photograph, signature. One day you raise your right hand and you are American. They give you an American Pass port. The United States of America. Somewhere someone has taken my identity and replaced it with their photograph. The other one. Their signature their seals. Their own image. And you learn the executive branch the legislative branch and the third. Justice. Judicial branch. It makes the difference The rest is past.
Sunday Adelaja -
If a vast majority of the population identify and embrace the nation’s value system, then that nation is automatically great. Because they will live out these values in their daily life.
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
Metaphysics... is nothing but the inventory of all we possess through pure reason, ordered systematically. Nothing here can escape us, because what reason brings forth entirely out of itself cannot be hidden, but is brought to light by reason itself as soon as reason's common principle has been discovered. The perfect unity of this kind of cognition, and the fact that it arises solely out of pure concepts without any influence that would extend or increase it from experience or even particular i
Søren Kierkegaard -
I shall be as willing as the next man to fall down in worship before the System, if only I can manage to set eyes on it. Hitherto I have had no success; and though I have young legs, I am almost weary from running back and forth... Once or twice I have been on the verge of bending the knee. But at the last moment, when I already had my handkerchief spread on the ground, to avoid soiling my trousers, and I made a trusting appeal to one of the initiated who stood by: "Tell me now sincerely, is it
Steven Magee -
You cannot expect a corrupt law enforcement system to prosecute the illegal activities of corporations and their government minions.
Steven Magee -
The USA legal system is designed to enrich lawyers, protect the government and corporations, and shaft the general public.
T.S. Welti - Darklandia
Are you saying the end of human suffering began with an amusement park?”“I’m saying the end of human suffering is a myth.”“But everyone’s happy.”“You think that just because a person doesn’t question the way the system works that means they agree with it? And if they do agree that must mean they’re happy? Are you happy?
Nick Harkaway -
To recap: it is possible to put decent information into a Government Machine, have ordinary, good people running the thing, and a reasonable system in place, and still get utter idiocy out of the dispenser?""More than possible. Likely.
Jackie Haze - Borderless
Venice was a contrast from Los Angeles itself, where you might see a woman with $15,000 tits, a face frozen in place by Botox, wobbling with her $4,000 Gucci bag right past a child with a sunken belly and exposed ribs encaging a heart too weak to scream.
Ken Liu - The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
At this moment, in this place, the shifting action potential in my neurons cascade into certain arrangements, patterns, thoughts; they flow down my spine, branch into my arms, my fingers, until muscles twitch and thought is translated into motion; mechanical levers are pressed; electrons are rearranged; marks are made on paper.At another time, in another place, light strikes the marks, reflects into a pair of high-precision optical instruments sculpted by nature after billions of years of random
Sunday Adelaja -
The percentage of the citizenry that embrace and identify with the nation’s virtues, with the nation’s value system, determine the true wealth of that nation
Grigoris Deoudis -
People usually seek to join a religious system in order to gain the eternal bliss and freedom of the soul. But belonging somewhere; anywhere is not freedom. Free is the wind. You need to become the wind, not wanting to know how and why, but only to experience this quality of freedom that leads to the original “religion”. There the soul is finally ONE and aligned with anything.
Deyth Banger -
Every system has it's own fall.
William Blake -
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Jean Piaget -
All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.
Bruce Nordstrom -
Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.
Sunday Adelaja -
The corrupt system made the ordinary citizen absolutely powerless and without rights
Sherrod Brown -
The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.
Lawrence Kudlow -
Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, the co-author of the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli immigration reform bill, has said the failure of that bill was a function of the lack of an ID card system.
Bertolt Brecht -
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
Jimmy Iovine -
That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.
Sunday Adelaja -
It is possible to build a system that could assure you of increase on constant basis
Nilantha Ilangamuwa -
If you want to denounce impunity then you have to start with denouncing the impunity that the regime enjoys.
Steven Magee -
Installing massive amounts of wireless devices into every city may eventually be proven to be a global weather modification system.
E. F. Schumacher -
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
Kevin Mitnick -
Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.
Milton Friedman -
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Aaron Huey -
Your belief system saturates the space around you.
Jane Poynter -
If I hadn't been inside of Biosphere 2 and really lived a biological life-support system, I definitely would not be involved in life-support systems for space.
Ronald Steel -
Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.
Ian M. Banks -
The ship told you the guilty systems recognizes no innocents. I'd say it does. It recognizes the innocence... only to violate it.
Sunday Adelaja -
Different function is a function of different system
Ezra Pound -
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Bill Vaughan -
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Clarence Clemons -
I have faith in the judicial system.
Hattie McDaniel -
Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.
Paul Rand -
Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.
James Madison -
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
Paulo Coelho -
Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.
Herbert Simon -
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
Anais Nin -
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Joel Salatin -
The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.
Charles Bass -
For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.
Louis B. Rosenberg -
When a species wants to tap the collective intelligence of a population, they don't take a poll; they don't take a vote. They form a real-time system.
Bill Gates -
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
Hillary Clinton -
In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.
Tennessee Williams -
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
Vladimir Putin -
The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.
Rupert Sheldrake -
Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.
Lars Ulrich -
Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
Bob Marley -
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
George Crumb -
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
Jim Cantrell -
I decided to design and build my own stereo amplifier system at age 13.
Jack Ma -
When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.
A. Philip Randolph -
In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
Eula Biss -
One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.
Mimi Kennedy -
For-profit does not belong in a taxpayer-funded health system. For-profit means cutting medical services to patients, and payments to providers, to preserve profits.
Michael Phelps -
I eat pretty much whatever I want. I don't have a strict diet. It's all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can.
John Rawls -
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
Morgan Fairchild -
I have a lot of stands on a lot of political issues. I'm very big on campaign finance reform. I still think most Americans aren't aware of how the dumping of big corporate dollars and private donor dollars has totally corrupted the political system and taken it away from them.
Chesley Sullenberger -
Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.
Timothy Murphy -
The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.
Robert Reich -
Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures.
Sydney J. Harris -
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Albert Bushnell Hart -
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
Robert Duncan -
If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.
Jeremy Bentham -
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
Zoe Lofgren -
We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.