Systems Quotes

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

It's sadly predictable that the only way you can come up with a way to celebrate the liberation you feel at leaving the old system behind is by coming up with a "system of liberation", as if such a thing could exist - but that's what we can expect from those who have never known anything other than systems and systematizing, I guess.

The fault is in the system and not in the men.

A system-grinder hates the truth.

I know the country works extremely well. You know, but when it isn't clogged up.

I think I will still feel that same appreciation for what [Winston] Churchill and others have said is the worst form of government except all the alternatives.

There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything.

True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

The separate parts make no carriage.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.

If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.

We may attack systems. We must not attack men.