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
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
Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
To check centralization and usurping of power ... we require a new laissez-faire. The old laissez-faire was founded upon a misapprehension of… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
We must move from ... the primacy of technology toward considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of organizational convenience… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon… — Dwight D. Eisenhower 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
Being the governor of a state is a more pivotal job in the future. I do indeed hope there's someone that says,… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skyscrapers, and government compounds… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
The net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history. — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
All the utopianism of the early days of the Internet seems to have dissipated. But I don't want us to lose that… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image