Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a…

“Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.”

— Ron Paul

“Organizational theorists, at least since Burns and Stalker, 1961 and Joan Woodward, 1965 in what came to be called the contingency school, have recognized…

— Charles Perrow

“The desire to control everything is giving way to pluralism, uniformity to diversity, centralization to localism, opacity to transparency, and immobilisme, or the resistance…

— John Micklethwait

“The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies,…

— George Gilder

Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains…

— Edward Forbes

They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and…

— Emma Goldman

We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

It is possible in theory and I think true in practice that centralization could have been the optimal solution at the beginning of the…

— Steven Pearlstein

Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the…

— George Gilder

The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor…

— Mikhail Bakunin

I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.

— Erich Fromm

The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

— Karl E. Weick

“In examining the division of powers, as established by the Federal Constitution, remarking on the one hand the portion of sovereignty which has been…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in…

— Johann Most

“Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are likely to…

— David Graeber