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Quotes About System

The glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than the glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
even there, where the rejection of the system is taken for granted and for that reason a lax and cunning conformism of its own has developed.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Moins la t théorie cherche à passer pour définitive, englobante, moins aussi elle s'objectivisise (vergegenständlichen) face à celui qui pense. La disparition de la contrainte du système permet au pensant de se fier avec moins de prévention à sa propre conscience et expérience que ne le tolérait la conception pathétique d'une subjectivité qui doit payer son triomphe abstrait du renoncement à son contenu spécifique.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
A ciência ela própria não tem consciência de si, ela é um instrumento, enquanto o esclarecimento é a filosofia que identifica a verdade ao sistema científico.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
even received a few requests that I send medicine, since none was available in the local pharmacies—an admission, unthinkable a few years ago, that all is not well in the much-vaunted health-care system.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.
~ Theresa May
The vendor would also be unlikely to give permission to have the specifics documented in a book on system administration. Failures
~ Thomas A. Limoncelli
Interstate commerce grew so rapidly that hundreds of local clock conventions had to be replaced by a national system of standardized time in 1883.
~ Thomas C. Leonard
Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.
~ Thomas Carper
I saw the legal system close up, and I understood that it was built by lawyers for lawyers, and unless you have an attorney to navigate it, you're not going to be successful.
~ Shari Redstone
It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.
~ Noah Baumbach
The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.
~ David Filo
It's a quirk of mine; I love neat garages.
~ Clive Cussler
They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.
~ John Anderson
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.
~ Sarah Churchwell
Everything is so chaotic. My nervous system can't handle it. I need my peace, so, every once in a while, while the kids are at school, I lie in bed, close the curtains, watch television and eat food.
~ Leslie Mann
The forward bend really relaxes the nervous system and brings blood flow back to the brain.
~ Mandy Ingber
With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.
~ Miguel Nicolelis
Human life is important and it feels like there is not a concern in communities of color. Very frustrated, but we will never give up and lose hope and change our system.
~ Martin Luther King III
If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey.
~ Cory Booker
The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.
~ Rob Walton
No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.
~ Sydney Pollack
We loathe mass incarceration. We loathe police brutality. But most of us have absolutely no idea how to address the critical flaws in our justice system.
~ Shaun King
about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.
~ Nick Hornby