Quotes About System

La diferencia entre el sistema comunista y el capitalista es que, aunque los dos nos den una patada en el culo, en el comunista te la dan y tienes que aplaudir, y en el capitalista te la dan y uno puede gritar.

The difference between the communist and capitalist systems is that, although both give you a kick in the ass, in the communist system you have to applaud, while in the capitalist system you can scream. And I came here to scream.

Teachers of morals who do not see the difference between the problem of charity within the limits of an accepted social system and the problem of justice between economic groups, holding uneven power within modern industrial society, have simply not faced the most obvious differences between the morals of groups and those of individuals.

thought I had said enough respecting them to show that there is nothing observable in the heavens or stars of our system that must not, or at least may not appear precisely alike in those of the system which I described.

The subjects mentioned in his title, Structural Stability and Morphogenesis, have a much wider reference; and he relates his topological system of thought to physical and indeed to general philosophical problems.

In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system.

MAY 8 IN THE TIBETAN medical system disorders of the flesh are related to ignorance, disorders of the bones to anger, and disorders of the blood to attachment.

There is a term for this phenomenon—politicomorphism, or "the divinization of earthly politics"—and it is, to this day, one of the central features of nearly every religious system in the world.

The system creates criminals out of men, then incarcerates and kills them for the criminals they become- Ras Cardo.

The acting CEO cannot be blamed or credited for the company's performance, and that makes the system independent of the CEO. Blame or credit falls on each manager and employee. The CEO should be the quarterback, not God. In a sense, it makes us like Switzerland, where many citizens have a hard time remembering their President's name. Solidarity comes as a consequence of collective action, and not from one personality.

Modus omnibus rbus. (Plautus Poen. 238: sc. est.)

that the concept of a loyal opposition did not exist in China and that Chiang's system of balancing off a variety of competing opportunists would not survive the introduction of western democracy with its free-for-all popular participation, particularly when one of the competing forces would be a dynamic, proliferating, disciplined organization determined to destroy that system and seize power.

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

Antonio follow a multi-active time system, that is, they do many things at once, often in an unplanned order.

Greed is not the cause of capitalists' behavior; it is a quality they acquire in accommodating to and internalizing the requirements of competitive survival within the capitalist system.

The system is a contradiction: the very logic imposed on the capitalist enterprise undermines the overall success of the capitalist. For Marxists, no law, rule, regulation, or behavior pattern provides an escape from this contradiction; none ever has.

Our final task', he wrote, 'might be to select those variables which can be deliberately controlled or managed by central authority in the kind of system in which we actually live.

In our system, rights are almost always procedural (for example, to a fair process) rather than substantive (for example, to food, housing, or education).

One of the most important elements in the evolution of human institutions is the emergence of the difficult customer within the system itself, the radical who starts to question its very being, the reformer who calls for changes in the way it runs.

The predominant system of farming bolstered by all of this is accurately named industrial agriculture. It is capital-intensive, not labor-intensive, which largely explains the region's depopulation. Industrial agriculture considers the countryside as a factory.

Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

No one in either system could be unaware that State Security was out there, but for the ordinary citizen, uninterested in politics, lucky enough not to belong to one of the groups stigmatized as enemies, the attitude was as likely to be prudent respect, even approval, rather than a permanent state of fear.

Creation is much in need of ordering.