#stem

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#china #control #forced #ideology #instrument

People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes. ↗

— Richard Neal

#also #based #believe #burden #come

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#democracy #good #i #other #say

There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it's there to be seen. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#certain #fairly #industry #little #little bit

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#answer #became #drift #films #go

I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that. ↗

— Rita Ora

#feels #great #i #know #like

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. ↗

— George Orwell

#evil #evolve #good #good and evil #heaven

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government. ↗

— George Osborne

#banking system #change #gone #government #learn

I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system. ↗

— George Osborne

#be true #big #democratic #democratic system #distracted

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#barbarous #consider #considered #declare #desire