2391 System Quotes for You to Enjoy

My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system. Robert Greenblatt

Old Teenager System Run Dream Studio Studio System Movie

What I don't want to see is our political system corrupted by gambling money, especially casino gambling money. Robert J. Bentley

Money Casino Political Our System Corrupted See Political System Want Gambling

Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion - it was a critique of British colonialism, and... 'The Time Machine' is really an indictment of the British class system. Robert J. Sawyer

Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not want the government to make the tax system more progressive, to impose punishing taxes on the rich, in order to give the money to them. Redistribution feels demeaning. It feels like being labeled a failure. Robert J. Shiller

Government Failure Money Rich Progressive Those Punishing System Give Rising More Economic Generally Feels Demeaning Like Look Make Policies Redistribution Inequality Impose Government Policies Labeled Being Tax Order Want Tax System Them Taxes Downside

Britain has taken itself out as a major player in the international system, at least for a while, with the kind of cuts that they've made in their national security budget. Robert Kagan

Made National System Out Kind Security Taken Budget Major Least Itself National Security National System While Cuts International Player Britain

I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system should always take into consideration the special knowledge as to the facts in a case which only the trial judge possesses. Robert Kennedy

Unlike national legal systems, there are precious few avenues to address judicial activism at the WTO. You pretty much have to gain consensus to change the agreements, or simply withdraw from the system. The first is nearly impossible, and the second would be - in the view of many - cataclysmic. Robert Lighthizer

You Change Legal Impossible First National Few Unlike Address System Systems Would Would-Be Pretty Cataclysmic Simply Withdraw Judicial Precious Gain Avenues Much View Many Agreements Activism Nearly Second Consensus

And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country. Robert McChesney

Change Better Made Country Else Our Unless Broadcasting System Got Very Accountable Going Anything Anything Else Held Hard

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system. Robert Musil

Army People World Philosophers System Locking Subjugate Who Disposal Violence

Unsuccessful businessmen and workers do not have the same animus against the capitalist system as do the wordsmith intellectuals. Only the sense of unrecognized superiority, of entitlement betrayed, produces that animus. Robert Nozick

Entitlement Sense System Betrayed Superiority Only Unsuccessful Intellectuals Same Against Workers Capitalist Produces Businessmen

Celebrity is a big part of the American social system. I'm certainly grateful for what it's done for me, but I do think that celebrity is overdone in our society. I think it's got a dangerous side to it. Robert Redford

Me Grateful Dangerous Big Think Society Side Our System Part Overdone Got Celebrity American Big Part Done Social Certainly Social System

We have this sort of tacit censorship, which is the ratings system, and it's directly tied to box office, so it is censorship. Like, if you make an R-rated movie, you know that only a certain amount of people are going to go see it under any circumstance. Robert Zemeckis

You People Censorship Circumstance System See Tacit Only Ratings Directly Like Know Make Sort Tied Box Box Office Go Office Any Going Movie Which Certain Amount

It's not compatible to expect multilateralism to work and, at the same time, to expect to walk out with everything you wanted. This is a recipe for failure. If we prize the system, we have to come knowing that we will need to make compromises. Sometimes painful compromises. Roberto Azevedo

Work Time Failure You Sometimes Walk Will Recipe Everything System Out Compromises Come Knowing Make Expect Prize Same Same Time Wanted Painful Compatible Need

I think the Brazil system is similar to the one we use at Liverpool, with lots of movement, players open out wide, and quality midfielders who join the attack and score goals. Roberto Firmino

Quality Goals Brazil Think System Out Similar Attack Join Open Score Lots Movement Use Who Liverpool Wide Players

While having friends of color is better than not having them, it doesn't change the overall system or prevent racism from surfacing in our relationships. The societal default is white superiority, and we are fed a steady diet of it 24/7. To not actively seek to interrupt racism is to internalize and accept it. Robin DiAngelo

Change Racism Better White Relationships Our System Seek Steady Superiority Having Prevent Color Fed Overall Accept Friends Than Diet While Them Internalize Actively Default Societal Interrupt

Although racism does, of course, occur in individual acts, these acts are part of a larger system that we all participate in. The focus on individual incidences prevents the analysis that is necessary in order to challenge this larger system. Robin DiAngelo

Racism Challenge Focus Analysis System Prevents Individual Part Participate Course Although Does Occur Order Acts Larger Necessary

The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years. Robin Marantz Henig

System Another Years Maturing Puberty Keeps

We are viewed by the world as a quasi-racist state in which we allow natural disasters to obliterate our minority community, in which our penal system is designed to treat blacks unfairly, and in which we let the medical and educational systems in our ghettos fester to the level of some third-world countries. Rod Lurie

Natural World Treat Minority Natural Disasters Community State Our System Systems Some Blacks Obliterate Allow Countries Disasters Educational Fester Unfairly Which Viewed Medical Level Designed

The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention to is what it's seeing and interacting with, and what you're understanding what it's doing. Rodney Brooks

I think we have to work with Hollywood. We have to work in the system and change it. Roger Ross Williams

Work Change Think System Hollywood

Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money, 'cause they're convinced that there is a free lunch. Ron Bloom

You Game Money Cause Will Free Joke Pay Lunch Market System Find Someone Free Lunch Free Market Point Beat Generally Know Least Nonsense Lot Get Convinced Speaking Who Whole

System Quotes

No more system quotes