Quotes About System

Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ruled by a privileged elite that would recycle itself through a network of private institutions that entrenched their advantages.

He'd considered transferring back to Homicide, tired of seeing rape survivors hung up to dry by a fucked-up—and misnamed—justice system. At least with Homicide the victims never had to face the perpetrators.

There were many people, Brazilians included, who believed such a change was impossible. They saw Brazil as the incorrigible land of the jeitinho, the artful little trick for getting around the system. This word, and the concept behind it, were supposedly intractable parts of our national identity, the products of a society that took deep pride in flaunting the law.

The primary message of Dependency and Development was that the people of Latin America had control over their own fate. Under certain circumstances, we could indeed operate within the existing system. Many alternatives were possible within that system, and the fatalism that dominated the region at that time was entirely pointless, we wrote. There would, of course, be certain restrictions, and we did not advocate blind free-market capitalism.

con eso de que aquí, en este país de leyes y constituciones, democrático, no es culpable nadie hasta que no lo condenen, y no lo condenan si no lo juzgan, y no lo juzgan si no lo agarran, y si lo agarran lo sueltan…

When an abuse has once taken root everything is arranged on the assumption of its continuance.

monopoly, like every other system of injustice, carries in itself its own punishment.

Tout est permis, personne ne vient t'engueuler si tu fous le bordel. Le système a atteint son but : même la désobéissance est devenue une forme d'obéissance.

The weakest would be put out of service rather than be allowed to compromise the whole system.

How our government works ... it doesn't.

If one wants to live one is better to incline towards imbecility than intelligence, and live only in the absurd. Intelligence consists of eating stars and turning them into dung. And the universe, at the most optimistic estimate, is nothing but God's digestive system.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

You cannot be an elitist, a magician, and be plugged into the system.

It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.

With more than 1 300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.

It is this short-termism, lack of ownership vision, selfishness and greed that is undermining our capitalist system.

They will always tell you that you can't do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up.

People who go to court to find justice are usually looking in the wrong place.

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

Education is not a thing apart from life—not a "system," nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.

The double-headed eagle that serves the Russian Empire as its crest illustrates quite magnificently the entire system of government of that country, where any matter of even the slightest importance is not entrusted to a single authority but at least two

To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.

Bezos liked to say that "good intentions don't work, but mechanisms do.