Quotes About System

One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one's own ideas.

Yeah, I think any time you're comfortable playing within a system you're going to play more aggressive. You're going to play with more confidence.

It's better to have a voice without alcohol in my system from the night before.

I am pro-education. I'm just anti the system.

It's not that I have anything against school. I just don't approve of the system.

What people want, above all, is order.

Nothing passes unchallenged there; the Houses of Parliament hatch some twelve hundred laws every session, yet no member of Parliament has ever yet raised an objection to the system —

Society, like nature, is a jealous power, and will have not her rights encroached on, or her system set at naught.

Biurokratija, kaip ir kariuomen?, turi savo pasyv? paklusnum?; tai sistema, kuri užgniaužia s?mon?, žmog? paver?ia nieku ir gal? gale j?, tartum kok? sraigt? ar veržl?, prisuka prie valdžios mašinos.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

The five elements of the complex adaptive system are conformity enforcers, diversity generators, inner-judges, resource shifters, and intergroup tournaments.

I see Freud as energized by three motivations: pleasure in classifying, lust for problem solving, passion for system building.

The way an institution works is that you go along with the prevailing fiction.

The United States has a system of taxation by confession.

Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

Today few can doubt that the system has crossed critical thresholds of ecological sustainability, raising questions about the vulnerability of the entire planet.

We are coming to a fork in the road in human history, where the system of global capitalism is forcing an end to the Holocene Epoch of the last 12,000 years, the geological period within which human civilisation has developed, where we have to decide between 'capitalism or the planet'. —DEL WESTON1

Another basic contradiction of the capitalist system of control is that it cannot separate "advance" from destruction, nor "progress

Unfortunately, many people sleepwalk through life without conscious awareness of their own system, if they have one at all, and are therefore susceptible to external notions o right and wrong imposed by others, particlarly members of the ofen eminently unqualified upper class and their support system, mass media.

There are times – they mark the danger point for a political system – when politicians can no longer communicate, when they stop understanding the language of the people they are supposed to be representing. The politicians of Weimar's parties were well on the way to reaching that point in 1930.

Absolute values are the things that are important whether you like them or not. Relative values depend on social contexts and personal preferences and conditions of life. Our current market system pursues relative transient values at the cost of absolute lasting values.

Religion is not God himself or herself. It is a system of teaching about God, an explanation of God's way to human minds. But God doesn't need explanations to exist.

What is missing in our economic system is a central value that can encompass everything that can be transacted and used to assign the proper relative value to everything.