System Quotes - page 2

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience. (Muhammad Iqbal)
My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others. View quote
Gillian Anderson
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system. View quote
Dan Quayle
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world. View quote
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Secrecy is an instrument of conspiracy; it ought not, therefore, to be the system of a regular government. View quote
Jeremy Bentham
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. View quote
Noam Chomsky
If you just want to use the system, instead of hacking on its internals, you don't need source code. View quote
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. View quote
William Winwood Reade
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. View quote
Ulrich Beck
Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile. (Walter Chrysler)
It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control. View quote
Dario Fo
On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you. View quote
Michael Pollan
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. View quote
Andrew Jackson
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. View quote
William James
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. View quote
William James
The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other. View quote
Tennessee Williams
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. (Herbert Butterfield)
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. View quote
Edmund Burke
A just system must generate its own support. View quote
John Rawls
Roughly speaking, rationality is concerned with the selection of preferred behavior alternatives in terms of some system of values, whereby the consequences of behavior can be evaluated. View quote
Herbert Simon
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin