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Quotes About System

Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.
~ Wietse Venema
The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.
~ William Feather
Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
~ James A. Baldwin
We're getting to the point where it's important for each platform to have unique, differentiated titles -- so that if consumers want to buy that game, they have to buy that system
~ John Taylor
We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance.
~ Jon Porter
I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.
~ Judd Gregg
We're all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We don't need to prove that we're not a part of the fabric of the culture in order to want to change it.
~ Maggie Nelson
Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.
~ Nancy Grace
An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through the way [Barack] Obama wants, we will have something very much like the British system.
~ Nat Hentoff
The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Early on it was much easier to play leads, but now independent movies are being co-opted by the studio system, and they want bigger names to guarantee more audience and more numbers.
~ Parker Posey
Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.
~ Jacque Fresco
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
~ Barbara Tuchman
This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.
~ Joseph Stalin
Capitalism in its imperialistic stage is a system which regards war as a legitimate method for solution of international disputes - a method which is legitimate in fact if not legally so.
~ Joseph Stalin
I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.
~ Helen Keller
It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.
~ Noam Chomsky
Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.
~ Ken Livingstone
The point of what we are all doing, wherever we are doing it, whether or not we see our actions in exactly the same framework, is to create spaces in which humans and nature can thrive, to make demands on the present system and force it to respond, to find contradictions in it and heighten them, to bend it until it either gives way or snaps.
~ Susan George
In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.
~ Susan Griffin
It was as if, in this urgent moment, the people of Los Angeles formed a living library. They created, for that short time, a system to protect and pass along shared knowledge, to save what we know for each other, which is what libraries do every day.
~ Susan Orlean
What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.
~ Susan Powter
if a "disability" really only becomes a problem in one setting—our factory-model K–12 system—I'd challenge that label.
~ Susan Wise Bauer