#system

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#been #building #dismantled #his #home

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #chewed #fun #got #i

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake. ↗

— David Guetta

#barefoot #because #dj #eight #everything

Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over. ↗

— Robert Guillaume

#america #believe #block #ever #great

I think part of the problem is the education system doesn't work - it's not accountable. ↗

— Luis Guzman

#education #i #i think #part #problem

So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#causes #damaged #did #discovering #function

Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#behind #big #businesses #economic #ecosystem

My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#brought #country #criticized #democratization #dictator

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#complex #cynical #exploitation #extreme #global

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#because #city #go #jew #medical