System Quotes

Your life is either defined by the system or by the way you defy the system.

The Empire improves every system it touches. Judge by any metric. Safety, prosperity, trade, opportunity, peace.

They were so powerful, they wrote the laws to benefit themselves. They got away with everything because they banked on us, all of us, to trust the system. That was our vulnerability, and they took advantage of it.

Systems either change or die.

I’m not the enemy. The system is not the enemy. The enemy is anarchy.

Every political system is flawed. And every bureaucracy is corrupt.

Any system can be compromised, given enough time.

You’re not a novice anymore. You’re long past the point of thinking of us as a family. That’s the mistake people make in the beginning, but you understand, I think, it’s a system. And we’re all in this system. You, me, the Boss. The cousins, the uncles, the aunts. The lepers. For better or for worse. We’re all stuck in it. And we can’t just air our grievances and throw bombs in the air as in a normal family, or we end up damaging something much bigger and something much more important. The system.[to Diana]

There is no big lie. There is no system. The universe is indifferent.

The system is broken. We gotta blow it up and start again.

Talk about a jolt to the system. Try getting shot at. It’ll give you a nice kick start.

Forget the system. Arrests lead to indictments. And indictments lead to pleas. There’s always a bigger fish, a bigger angle. A slap on the wrist. Boom. Right back in business. I ain’t going for that.