Quotes of: Political-system Keyword

God's holiness is not an unloving holiness, and God's love is not an unholy love. It is only by keeping these two primary moral qualities of the divine being closely related that we may rightly behold the character of God. (p. 98)

The Living God: Systemic Theology: Volume One

I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating... The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which the thinker can surrender his thought to that syst...

The Philosophy of Brand Blanshard

I have a rating system I apply to all people. Mao Zedong might have a Meow Factor of four, but I like to keep my Meow Factor as close to zero as I can. This system is not to be confused with my HV methodology, where I assign myself a Hooray Value of ...

This Book Has No Title

With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the cent...

Understanding Media: The Extensions Of Man

Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to...

Murray Gell-Mann

When I was mayor of New York, my views changed. I began as mayor of New York City thinking that I could reform the New York City school system. After two or three years, four years, I became an advocate of choice, of scholarships, and vouchers, and p...

Rudy Giuliani

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enfor...

Friedrich Nietzsche

If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how wrong the egg, I will stand on the side of the egg. Why? Because each of us is an egg, a unique soul enclosed in a fragile egg. Each of us is confron...

Haruki Murakami

As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on humanist principles. When I say religion, I do not mean merely a theology involving belief in a supernatural god or gods; nor do I mean merely a syst...

Julian Huxley

Ray Arnold: Um... It's OK. [looking at one of the computers in the control room] Ray Arnold: Look, see that. It's on. It worked. Dr. Ian Malcolm: What... what do you mean, it worked? Everything's still off. Ray Arnold: Well, maybe the shutdown trippe...

Jurassic Park

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

Charles Atlas

The fashion system has killed fashion.

Domenico Dolce

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

Freedomâ„¢

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy

I've learned that the most unbelievable is the most believable.

The Great Wall of Silence: The Silent Political Takeover of the United States

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.

Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller

If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.

Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller

Harming one’s unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.

Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry

What society judged was not the severity of the disease but the social acceptability of the individuals affected with it…

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

Grover Norquist