Quotes about System
Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.
- Alexander Hamilton
God has made relationships His chosen delivery system for the gospel of hope.
- Ed Stetzer
The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.
- Shane Claiborne
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
- Charles Dickens
Good order is the foundation of all good things.
- Edmund Burke
Our liberation comes through a person, not a system of ideas and principles. Everything we need for life and godliness ultimately comes through our knowledge of Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:3).
- Edward Welch
America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
- Al Gore
I am here, a citizen of this country, and I'm saying, 'Hey, the system failed me. I am a good citizen. I contribute to this country, and here I am sharing my story. What are you going to do now?'
- Diane Guerrero
Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
- Herbert Hoover
Teachers of morals who do not see the difference between the problem of charity within the limits of an accepted social system and the problem of justice between economic groups, holding uneven power within modern industrial society, have simply not faced the most obvious differences between the morals of groups and those of individuals.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
There is no such thing as a nonpolitical Christianity. To refuse to critique the system or the status quo is to fully support it—which is a political act well disguised. Like Pilate, many Christians choose to wash their hands in front of the crowd and declare themselves innocent, saying with him, "It is your concern" (Matthew 27:25). Pilate maintains his purity and Jesus pays the price.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
There is no such thing as a nonpolitical Christianity. To refuse to critique the system or the status quo is to fully support it—which is a political act well disguised.
- Fr. Richard Rohr