Systemic Flaws Quotes

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.

Give me a bad democracy, a sick democracy, but democracy!

A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.

I fell through the holes in the educational system. But education is still a way to change a life.

School's a weird thing. I'm not sure it works.

This system stinks and every senator who participates in it knows it stinks. And the American people are right when they mistrust this system, when what matters most in seeking public office is not integrity, not ability, not judgment, not reason, not responsibility, not experience, not intelligence, but money …. Money dominates the system. Money infuses the system. Money is the system.

What is interesting to me about watching a show about the 1% is the world in which the 1% exists, meaning the flaws within the 99% that allow the 1% to exist.

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

Society is now less convinced of the absolute accuracy of the criminal justice system.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

A changeless constitution becomes the protector not only of vested rights but of vested wrongs.

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

If some imaginative practical joker had been appointed by the malevolent gods to devise, for our sins, a system of municipal government, he would have invented something like what we have, though better.

Republics can commit no greater error than to adopt or continue any feature in their systems of government which may be calculated to create or increase the lover of power in the bosoms of those to whom necessity obliges them to commit the management of their affairs.

If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational.

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

The State machine breaks often down in consequence of mistakes made forty and fifty years ago …

If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.

What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you can’t operate an entire conventional system, whether it’s economics, business or the way we live and surround ourselves, what we eat, without recognizing that there are severe negative externalities that are not being accounted for.

I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

The tax code has been flawed and inefficient for a very long time, precisely because fixing it could be so terribly disruptive.

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.