#system

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. ↗

— George Saunders

#answers #bad #bet #cruel #declines

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#applicable #case #exclusively #involve #languages

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#collectively #enterprise #free #free enterprise #free enterprise system

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#central #communist #communist party #cults #down

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#ever #greatest #intellectual #man #mind

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them. ↗

— Anne Wilson Schaef

#because #been #cannot #control #defined

Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#been #birth #democracy #denial #having

If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld? ↗

— Adam Schiff

#alumni #awarding #children #constitution #diverse

After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system. ↗

— Otto Schily

#after #again #bringing #creating #efforts

On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security. ↗

— Otto Schily

#adventurous #attacks #been #bus #circulating