| "Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man." »Nikita Khrushchev |
| "There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you." »Millicent Carey McIntosh |
| "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 |
| "Programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life." »Michael Sinz |
| "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this." »Bertrand Russell |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Saying we should keep the two-party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts." »Eugene McCarthy |
| "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 |
| "Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker ... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system." »Patricia Roberts Harris |
| "It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after." »William Shakespeare |
| "People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you." »Ruben Studdard |
| ""The pursuit of happiness" is an American myth. The ideologies and governments of this century that promised happiness, have left people with more material possessions, but less psychological well-being. Many of the citizens are emotionally bankrupt and unhappy. The demands of life in our current socioeconomic system require that we keep running and running with little or no breaks....Like their parents, most of the young professionals will drift through life racing for the "American Dream", going through very expensive trial-and-error lessons and struggling to achieve happiness and fulfillment." »Med Yones |
| "Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues." »John Locke |
| "An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support." »John Buchan |
| "We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more." »Madame Swetchine |
| "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence." »Frank Zappa |
| "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination." »Andrew Lang |
| "If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating." »Leigh Hunt |
| "The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it." »John Updike |
| "What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those" »Gilbert Highet |
| "I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance ... was a neat idea." »Oliver L. North |
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