This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.
We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.
The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.
Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.
Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts to safeguard your civil liberties-must, of course, be handled on the national level.
Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?
A market system is not a profit system, it's a profit-and-loss system.
When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.
If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.
When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.
I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?
You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.
Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to impose themselves on their own account. They differ from moral prohibitions in that they fall into no system that declares quite generally that certain abstinences must be observed and gives reasons for that necessity.
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
Everybody has an opinion. I think everybody has the right to believe whatever they want. I don't ever cast judgment on someone's belief system.
The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.