Quotes About System

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations; and, second, on their number.

We cannot improve ourselves or our country without improving our educational system and educating ourselves.

Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.

The real beauty of life is in orderliness.

Our teaching systems mostly teach us how to conform but not how to reform.

Since capitalism is a system based of the love of money, doesn't that make it the root of all evil?

The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is a form of brain damage.

I think the big problem is you have a vicious cycle of wealth and power in America that's just gotten completely out of control and you've seen it in politics.

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

The government transfers income and wealth according to the rules of politics, which make politicians the primary beneficiaries of the system, and the poor and needy the primary victims.

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration system and pass legislation this year.