Quote by Barnett Cocks

“Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Let’s form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we’ll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.”

— Ryan Lilly

“It takes a lot of commitment to sit on a committee. Only the most courageous could boldly command all that power, yet remain detached…

— Jarod Kintz

“The committee won't help you, it won't help anyone, the committee is the old way, he laughs at your committee because it's the old…

— Stephen King

“Make government the herder of the flock, and the herder will cull the undesirable sheep.”

— A.E. Samaan

“All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that groups of…

— Ayn Rand

“I am no one’s agent. I am the agent of the law. All the conspiracies pass through my hands. The Committee, you know, draws…

— Hilary Mantel

“The library committee had an epic secret meeting about the ethics of literary eugenics which ended in a furious deadlock.”

— Lev Grossman

“There is a time to silence an adversary with the honey of logical persuasion, and there is a time to silence him with the…

— Ernest Bramah

“In my experience, committees can criticize, but they cannot create. ‘Search the parks in all your cities You’ll find no statues of committees.”

— David Ogilvy

“I hate organizations. Folks got to be free, able to breathe, and make up their own minds about stuff, not be fed a party…

— Karen Marie Moning

“Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.”

— Suetonius