Quotes About System

Oh, it isn't that I mind the glittering caste system, admitted Amory. I like having a bunch of hot cats on top, but gosh, Kerry, I've got to be one of them.

The education system is an increasingly powerful mechanism for the intergenerational reproduction of privilege.

The American political system has lost the ability for large-scale compromise, and it has lost the ability to accept some pain now for much gain later on.

It turns out that in any system, of these three characteristics—open, fast, stable—you can have only two.

Other educational systems teach you to take tests; the American system teaches you to think.

The health-care system in the United States is a vast, complex, and expensive one, but it responds to market incentives.

All the world, all life, is a vast system of unconscious agents operating through individual consciousnesses.

People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system. If the novelist is not sustained by a hope of money, then he must be sustained by a hope of salvation, or he simply won't survive the ordeal.

I love cops; I'm fascinated by the criminal justice system.

What the fashion system says and what the fashion customer says are really two different things.

In the second year of a system it's easier to get through your progressions faster.

Most Americans, I don't think, could fathom the society that I grew up in. It is a completely different philosophy from America's. You are basically told what you can be by the educational system.

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system.

It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.

There are two ways you can buy an education in this country. You can pay the fees. Or you can cheat and buy a house in an area where there's a good school.

Burdensome fees have made it harder for people to exit the criminal justice system.

Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one.

Real change, the kind we have not seen in decades, is only going to come from outside the system. And it's only going to come from a man who's spent his entire life doing what others said could not be done. My father is a fighter.

I do not consider myself a feminist. I do not believe that by doing female-oriented films that depict a woman fighting the system, we can change the system.

Figuring out what your players do well and finding a system that will work effectively for them gives you the best chance of winning.

The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

At some point, there will be some other financial crisis. It's in the nature of a capitalist system.