Quotes with omni-system-considerate

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  • Mohsin Hamid Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Capitalism requires individual responsibility and accountability. People are seen as atomized units in a capitalist system - they are either useful, or they are not. They are not seen racially or ethnically or religiously. They consume and they produce, and those are their only relevant characteristics.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things, which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Karl Marx Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Charles Dickens Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Beth Simone Noveck Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you?
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Ben Johnson Don't tell me I cheated the system because that's. I didn't get treated fairly by the system. They cast me out and they were jealous because I turned in the fastest time ever run by a human and it was impossible at the time.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • A. J. Muste Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.
    Some Notes on Workers Education in New International (1935) Vol.2, No.7 p. 225
    A. J. Muste
    Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist
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  • Aldous Huxley Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Truman Capote Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Benjamin Graham Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.
    Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. I, The Changing Role of Surplus Stocks
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Blake Farenthold Everybody wants to help folks out. But we've got a system where you can stay on unemployment for an awfully long time. And I think we need to create a system of decreasing benefits over time to encourage you to get a job.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Carlos Gershenson Everything can be seen as a system because there is nothing you cannot <split|decompose>.
    Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Cassiodorus For what is more glorious than music, which modulates the heavenly system with its sonorous sweetness, and binds together with its virtue the concord of nature which is scattered everywhere?
    Variae, Bk. 2, no. 40; p. 38.
    Cassiodorus
    Roman statesman
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