Quotes with system-level

Quotes 201 till 220 of 496.

  • Breyten Breytenbach In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Bruce Lipton In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Barack Obama In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Paul G. Thomas Information storage has to take place at the unconscious level.
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  • Quentin Crisp Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Carol Burnett It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Billy West It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • George Santayana It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bryant H. McGill It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • George Orwell It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.
    Down and Out in Paris and London Ch. 33
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Brendan Gill It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.
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  • James Baldwin It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Allen Klein It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Henry Miller It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Joseph Brodsky It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Bob Woodward It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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