System Quotes

We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it’s in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter.

There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it’s an old system that we can’t control.

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems … they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.

People think there’s a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.

It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.