The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Bill Vaughan

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
Carol Burnett

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Thomas Carlyle

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
Thomas Szasz

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
Henri Frederic Amiel

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.
Mickey Rourke

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
Quentin Crisp

The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.
Jeffrey Sachs

I'm not familiar with the metric system.
Patton Oswalt

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Adlai E. Stevenson

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
Imelda Marcos

The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.
Phillip Adams

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
Paul Cezanne

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
David Hume

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.
Les Paul

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
Philip Pullman

The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.
Kinky Friedman

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
Sophia Loren