#system

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

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#american #free #free markets #make #markets

The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#american #american life #belief #capacity #competing

All systems are oligarchy. There is no other. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#other #systems

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems. ↗

— John Mica

#behavior #bloated #bureaucracy #countries #detection

The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system. ↗

— John Mica

#bulgaria #country #left #now #only

We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this. ↗

— John Mica

#american #average #average american #concentrating #convert

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups. ↗

— George Michael

#aimed #bill #democratic #especially #every

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#education #know #only #out #problem

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#badly #directed #ed #education #funded