Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small. — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I've started a project called Planet Art. The purpose will be to remind people where I really believe we came from, which… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building. — Michael Welch Copy Share Image
In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of… — Richard Levins Copy Share Image
As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest… — David Korten Copy Share Image
The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Technologically, modern man does everything he can do-he functions on this single boundary principle. Modern man, seeing himself as autonomous, with no… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
I was touching on the idea of the autonomous militaristic or autonomous law enforcement idea, but it wasn't the primary driving force. — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
God has ordained the state as a delegated authority; it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice,… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state. — Theda Skocpol Copy Share Image
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