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Quotes About System

It is the industry which is carried on for the benefit of the rich and powerful, that is principally encouraged by our mercantile system. That which is carried on for the benefit of the poor and the indigent, is too often, either neglected, or oppressed
~ Adam Smith
All were agreed that there could be no liberty while a body independent of the parliamentary system was able to judge people, and the ecclesiastical tribunals' jurisdiction was duly annulled by act of the Sejm in 1562.
~ Adam Zamoyski
Howsoever we classify enactment arguments—whether we view them as historical, or textual, or structural—we need to see that the written Constitution and the unwritten Constitution cohere to form a single system. While
~ Akhil Reed Amar
Tupi men were allowed to take more than one wife, and were said to be devoted to them all. 'Their entire system of ethics contains only the same two articles: resoluteness in battle and love
~ Alain de Botton
I can't do this by myself. It requires two security codes to access the full system and shut it down.
~ Alan Dean Foster
The Ileenium system?
~ Alan Dean Foster
Whether we choose it or not, almost all expressions of church in the West are implicitly vulnerable to nondiscipleship, professionalized ministry, spiritual passivity, and consumerism. The problem is rooted in the profoundly nonmissional assumptions of the system itself.
~ Alan Hirsch
We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.
~ Derrick Bell
Once you break your identification with the system, with the authoritarian technics that are driving planetary murder, your language and your actions become very different. Once you identify with the real, living planet, everything changes.
~ Derrick Jensen
B.R. Ambedkar believed the tale was not so much about Ram's character as it was about the unsustainability of the caste system that needed violence for its enforcement.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Instead of questioning what is wrong with your child, we encourage you to consider that something may be fundamentally wrong with the diagnostic and education systems that are failing your child
~ Diane M. Kennedy
capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
The initiate, however, uses a symbol-system differently; he uses it as an algebra by means of which he will read the secrets of unknown potencies; in other words, he uses the symbol as a means of guiding thought out into the Unseen and Incomprehensible.
~ Dion Fortune
Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.
~ Don Henley
We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.
~ Donald Berwick
We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.
~ Lawrence Weiner
I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.
~ Steve Jobs
A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too likely to be foolish in another.
~ Charlie Munger
Above all, the system had prized integrity above intellect; 'learning and cultivation of the mind come last, character, heart, courage, strength and physical address are in the first rank'.
~ Jeremy Paxman
Choosing to narrow reality into a single belief system, based solely on human experience, seems insane to me.
~ Jeremy Robinson
The time is coming when the Antichrist will take full control of the world system. The judgments will get worse. Before us are two people— one who knew God and one who didn't. One who showed the love of God, who gave her life so that we would be saved. May these two lives renew our resolve to live for God. We must let nothing stand in our way in telling others the truth. Even if it costs our lives.
~ Jerry B. Jenkins
Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.
~ Jerry Brown
The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.
~ Jerry Brown