Famous quotes containing the words grass and/or system:
“There they stand, the small ones, like grass and weeds and scrubinnocent in their wretched insignificance. And now I make my furtive way through them and trample down as few as I canbut in doing so disgust consumes my heart.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Those words freedom and opportunity do not mean a license to climb upwards by pushing other people down. Any paternalistic system that tries to provide for security for everyone from above only calls for an impossible task and a regimentation utterly uncongenial to the spirit of our people.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945)