Famous quotes containing the words nye and/or system:
“I’m not interested in
who suffered the most.
I’m interested in
people getting over it.”
—Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952)
“Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)