Quotes About System

The Spanish economic system is like a game of musical chairs, in which there are only half as many seats as there are performers.

when law is isolated and exalted into an independent system of religion, it becomes demonic.

Fisher's Fundamental Theorem states—in terms appropriate to the present context—that the better adapted a system is to a particular environment, the less adaptable it is to new environments.

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty, and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

That is the beauty of the Common Law, it is a maze and not a motorway.

Law is a bottomless pit.

All things obey fixed laws.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

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

Have a place for everything and have everything in its place.

I'll have to, as you say, take a stand, do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

The wealth of a nation consists not in its mass of material things, but in its system. The natural resources of South America are not inferior to those of the United States, but the wealth of the two regions is vastly different. The land of India is far richer than that of Japan, but the comparative wealth of the two nations is reversed.

Should people take justice in their own hands when their system of law does not function?

Analytical psychology and magic comprise in my estimation two halves or aspects of a single technical system.

A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective.' (1923)

Roarke, you've got to know I've got some bad stuff inside. It's like a virus that sneaks around the system, pops out when your resistance is low. I'm not a good bet. - Eve Dallas I like long odds. He lifted her hand, kissed it. Why don't we see it through? Find out if we can both win. - Roarke

I can't go through channels or use either my home or office units. The minute I tried to dig on the chief of police, I'd be flagged. And you're wondering if I have a secured, unregistered system. Of course I do. Of course, she muttered. A nonregistered system is in violation of Code four fifty-three-B, section thirty-five. I can't tell you how aroused it makes me when you quote codes, lieutenant.

But getting the sinner where justice deemed he belonged was the trick. It required a system. And the system demanded its rules, techniques, manpower, organizations, and loopholes. And the occasional seminar to educate and inform.

Music on," he ordered, and the swelling sounds of the aria from Carmen he'd already programmed into the entertainment system filled the room. Gorgeous, he thought

Your stay in the camp was merely an allegory, if you know that word. It was an allegory--speaking at the highest level--of how scandalously, how outrageously a meaning can take up residence in a system without becoming a term in it.

Most people can be relied on to humour the upper class in social situations but it is not always easy, especially when they start discussing their value system.