#stems

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#camps #citizens #concentration #countries #intern

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#elements #emphasis #empirical #empirical fact #fact

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#authoritarian #democratic #devised #dictatorships #forms

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#air pollution #approximately #emission #enforcing #go

It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking. ↗

— David Rose

#check #email #five #hard #mail

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#i #life #my life #soviet #spent

I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#believe #coast #country #did #energy

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues. ↗

— David Johansen

#blues #comes #especially #even #i

I don't like closed systems. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#i #like #systems

First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that. ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

#different #discussed #economic #expert #first