#system

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#contrary #envy #free #free markets #incomes

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#ambition #controlled #corruption #democratic #democratic system

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#beliefs #elude #human #like #natural

The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#king #like #monarchy #never #our

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#books #bookstore #branch #chain #city

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#actor #films #ignore #power #successful

I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#believed #first #fund #i #idea

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#everyone #give #giving #good #good place

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#antagonism #concerned #couples #directly #family

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#been #convention #democratic #getting #had