Flawed Systems Quotes

I think that running empires as a way of ordering the world is a flawed model.

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.

We are all imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed choice, about many bad alternatives

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

All human belief systems are inherently flawed.

Our anti-corruption systems have inherently and intently been kept flawed.

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

I don't think there is such a thing as the perfect system.

However flawed democracy is, it is still the only answer.

Sure, our legal system has its flaws, but it is the best legal system in the world.

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do not believe there were any really good doctors in the 10th century.

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.