Quotes About System

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.

For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

Believe me, folks, I've been saying it for a long time. The system, the whole system is rigged.

At all times it is better to have a method.

The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.

But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.

Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over.

The ultimate fulfillment of God's mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

The time has come for professional jurors.

The central task of our time is to evolve a new system of world order based on principles of peace and justice.

Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until you really start to look inside the system and you see, this is not right.

Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still.

You talk like a Baptist preacher making a recruiting speech. Suppose I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.

The paternalism of an economic system that first creates economic hardship for millions, then pretends to know how to assuage it, is delusional.

El ego es como un virus informático que ataca al centro del sistema operativo.

Help people soar and they'll build their own economic prosperity, thank you. The paternalism of an economic system that first creates economic hardship for millions, then pretends to know how to assuage it, is delusional. Our current economic model is a holdover from an aristocratic perspective that views people as servants to a system; but our economy should be a system that is a servant to the people.

I think that in our earlier history--the Gettysburg Address or something--there was the conscious sense that democracy was an achievement. It was not simply the most efficient modern system or something. It was something that people collectively made and they understood that they held it together by valuing it.

The system did not punish offenders the way she believed they ought to be punished.

If we idolize our theological system, we must demonize other theological systems.