System Quotes

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system. (Bruce Lee)
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. View quote
George Orwell
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
History is a vast early warning system. View quote
Norman Cousins
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. View quote
Gore Vidal
We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. View quote
Václav Havel
The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. View quote
Dave Barry
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system. View quote
Jane Smiley
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. (William James)
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. View quote
Theodor Adorno
The United States brags about its political system, but the [American] President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. View quote
Deng Xiaoping
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system? View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. View quote
Timothy Leary
I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system. View quote
Edie Sedgwick
You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful? View quote
James Tiptree, Jr
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people. View quote
John Cleese
See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too. (Linus Torvalds)
When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free." View quote
Linus Torvalds
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system. View quote
Herbert Hoover
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal. View quote
Milton Friedman