System Surroundings

Famous quotes containing the words system and/or surroundings:

    “Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.”
    —William Cobbett (1762–1835)

    “I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)