Quotes About System

Aucun des sophismes de la folie, - la folie qu'on enferme, - n'a été oublié par moi : je pourrais les redire tous, je tiens le système.

It was plain to me that we couldn't look to the kourts for freedom and justice anymore than we could expect to gain our liberation by participating in the u.s. political system, and it was pure fantasy to think we could gain them by begging. The only alternative left was to fight for them, and we are going to have to fight like any other people who have fought for liberation.

Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery.

Anytime you're talking about a ladder, you're talking about a top and a bottom, an upper class and a lower class, a rich class and a poor class. As long as you've got a system with a top and a bottom, Black people are always going to wind up at the bottom, because we are the easiest to discriminate against. That's why i couldn't see fighting within the system.

Once you're in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don't want to work, they beat you up and throw you in the hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions.

Jury selection continued with only the judge and the prosecutor participating.

Os jornalistas são profissionais interessantes. São como bactérias que criticam o sistema, mas dependem dele para sobreviver.

Sueños sin proyectos producen personas frustradas, siervas del sistema.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.

leading Muslim clerics (the ulema) have come to the consensus that Islam is more than a mere religion, but rather the one and only comprehensive system that embraces, explains, integrates, and dictates all aspects of human life: personal, cultural, political, as well as religious. In short, Islam handles everything.

The defects of bureaucracy are, indeed, well known. It is a form of Government which has been tried often enough in the world, and it is easy to show what, human nature being what it in the long run is, the defects of a bureaucracy must in the long run be.

I'm interested in institutions, particularly in the way institutions close ranks. They have hierarchies and their own ethics.

Our healthcare environment is incredibly complex and is changing rapidly.

We want a system that creates the same exact sandwich, very rapidly and very consistently, every single time.

We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.

Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again.

We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system.

The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons could accommodate in their own facilities.

Once we see stars with three times the metal content of our sun, the planet detection rate goes up to 20 per cent.

It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system.

The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true.

Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

When it comes to the ratings, I don't know what the rating system is. So when it comes to me, I've learned, with the little experience that I have, that when I feel really good about a movie in the editing room, it works. And when I've felt like a movie wasn't working, it didn't work.