systematic QUOTES

62 " By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty, for sure we can change our society. "

64 " Hauriou, became a crown witness for us when he confirmed this connection in 1916, in the midst of WWI: “The revolution of 1789 had no other goal than absolute access to the writing of legal statutes and the systematic destruction of customary institutions. It resulted in a state of permanent revolution because the mobility of the writing of laws did not provide for the stability of certain customary institutions, because the forces of change were stronger than the forces of stability. Social and political life in France was completely emptied of institutions and was only able to provisionally maintain itself by sudden jolts spurred by the heightened morality. "

― Carl Schmitt ,

66 " We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve publish health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in history. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Eating Animals

68 " It rests on the attempt since the 1970s to translate a pathological degeneration of the principle of laissez-faire into economic reality by the systematic retreat of states from any regulation or control of the activities of profit-making enterprise. This attempt to hand over human society to the (allegedly) self-controlling and wealth- or even welfare-maximising market, populated (allegedly) by actors in rational pursuit of their interests, had no precedent in any earlier phase of capitalist development in any developed economy, not even the USA. It was a reductio ad absurdum of what its ideologists read into Adam Smith, as the correspondingly extremist 100% state-planned command economy of the USSR was of what the Bolsheviks read into Marx. "

― Eric J. Hobsbawm , How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011

70 " And it is change that always provides the opportunity for the new and different. Systematic innovation therefore consists in the purposeful and organized search for changes, and in the systematic analysis of the opportunities such changes might offer for economic or social innovation. "

― Peter F. Drucker , Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles

72 " Imagine that the keeper of a huge, strong beast notices what makes it angry, what it desires, how it has to be approached and handled, the circumstances and the conditions under which it becomes particularly fierce or calm, what provokes its typical cries, and what tones of voice make it gentle or wild. Once he's spent enough time in the creature's company to acquire all this information, he calls it knowledge, forms it into a systematic branch of expertise, and starts to teach it, despite total ignorance, in fact, about which of the creature's attitudes and desires is commendable or deplorable, good or bad, moral or immoral. His usage of all these terms simply conforms to the great beast's attitudes, and he describes things as good or bad according to its likes and dislikes, and can't justify his usage of the terms any further, but describes as right and good the things which are merely indispensable, since he hasn't realised and can't explain to anyone else how vast a gulf there is between necessity and goodness. "

― Plato , The Republic

74 " Who is responsible for the incredible mess the present-day generation of
Americans find themselves in? In this book, I hope to show exactly how this
happened. A series of deadly, inexplicable decisions by our elected leaders
and corporate executives have paved the way to the crisis we must deal with
now. Corruption has grown entrenched, like an inoperable disease, in nearly
every organ of the establishment. We must heed the words of one of America’s
greatest statesmen, Thomas Jefferson: “Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed
to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a
distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of
ministers [administrations], too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan
of reducing us to slavery.” The American people have been dealing with just
such a “series of oppressions” now for well over a century, and there can
be little doubt that it is the result of a “deliberate systematic plan.” The best
word to describe it is conspiracy. "

― Donald Jeffries , Hidden History: An Exposé of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics

76 " Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid arguments. "

― , Logic: An Introductory Course

78 " We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle. "

― Russell Banks , Continental Drift

80 " Due to previous lack of systematic assessment of dissociative symptoms, many subjects experience the SCID-D as their first opportunity to describe their symptoms in their own words to a receptive listener. "

― , Interviewer's Guide to the Structured Clinical Interview for Dsm-IV (R) Dissociative Disorders (Scid-D) (REV)