“Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.” — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization. — Karl E. Weick Copy Share Image
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere. — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
I'm a federalist. I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization. — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense… — David Lilienthal Copy Share Image
In the American political lexicon, 'change' always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“The desire to control everything is giving way to pluralism, uniformity to diversity, centralization to localism, opacity to transparency, and immobilisme, or… — John Micklethwait Copy Share Image
Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“Organizational theorists, at least since Burns and Stalker, 1961 and Joan Woodward, 1965 in what came to be called the contingency school,… — Charles Perrow Copy Share Image
The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
“The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“Max Weber, who we met in the previous chapter, provided the most famous and widely accepted definition of the state, identifying it… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“In examining the division of powers, as established by the Federal Constitution, remarking on the one hand the portion of sovereignty which… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
It is possible in theory and I think true in practice that centralization could have been the optimal solution at the beginning… — Steven Pearlstein Copy Share Image
The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history. — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
People who resist authority, who defend the rights of the individual, who try in a period of increasing totalitarianism and centralization to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
[Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful,… — Elisabeth of Wied Copy Share Image
Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
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