| "'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them." »David Borenstein |
| "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." »John Gall |
| "To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system thereby the oppressed become the oppressor." »Unknown |
| "A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term." »Robert Reich |
| "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society." »Doris Lessing |
| "What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis." »W. Edwards Deming |
| "Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society." »Edward C. Banfield |
| "As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. (On the Vietnam War)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically." »Barbra Streisand |
| "It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment." »W. Edwards Deming |
| "Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals." »Vaclav Havel |
| "Let us be very careful not to fall into the trap of the world. The world views things only relative to man and to self. The Word of God views things relative to the Father, Son, and Spirit. Mankind is not the center of all things. No matter how great anyone's name might become, it is still far behind His. Our name comes from His life the name of our Lord comes from the resurrection--the event unique to Him. The world has a problem it seeks to honor, uphold, exonerate and generally praise itself. Our place and the place of the entire world system is to praise and exalt God. When people of the Bible caught a glimpse of Him, their lives were changed. Perhaps our lives remain stagnate because we do not spend enough time looking at Him." »Roger Anderson |
| "honor does not have to be defended." »Robert J. Sawyer |
| "Where there is no shame, there is no honor." »African Proverb |
| "What is left when honor is lost" »Publilius Syrus |
| "honor has not to be won it must only not be lost." »Arthur Schopenhauer |
| "An honor is not diminished for being shared." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "Reputation is what other people know about you. honor is what you know about yourself." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "Don't look for more honor than your learning merits." »Jewish Proverb |
| "What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator." »Anonymous |
| "Marriage love, honor, and negotiate." »Joe Moore |
| "A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself." »Marguerite de Valois |
| "Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." »Sophocles |
| "It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything." »Fulton John Sheen |
| "It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is." »Hermann Hesse |
| "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year." »Charles Dickens |
| "Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends." »Aristotle |
| "honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences." »Midori Koto |
| "The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |