#system

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#cause #change #cheaply #climate #climate change

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#believe #better #depends #i #i believe

The whole system of society tells you what to do. ↗

— Barry White

#system #tells #whole #you

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people. ↗

— E. B. White

#been #highly #most #people #profit

Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#because #behind #california #china #competitive

A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#great #hated #i #learn #like

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#automatic #basis #decisions #devices #fundamentally

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#liquor #live #other #out #system

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. ↗

— Ellen Willis

#also #art #consumption #corporate #frankenstein

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors. ↗

— Debra Wilson

#anything #below #black #category #class