Centralized Quotes
56 quotes by 46 authors
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It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true,…
— Patrick Cleburne
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Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups,…
— Jaron Lanier
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The hydrogen economy will make possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by global…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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The revolution here is from hierarchical to lateral power. That's the power shift. So increasingly a younger generation that's grown up on the internet and…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.
— Larry Ellison
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The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one…
— Roy Moore
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I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become…
— Robert H. Jackson
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I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the second-largest Soviet republic,…
— James Mace
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The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ... Indeed, the future…
— Mark Thornton
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Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate…
— Ulrich Beck
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way…
— Ulrich Beck
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The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.
— Peter Eisenman
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Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from…
— John S. Watson
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Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue…
— Ronald Reagan
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Government is not infallible. Government is only an executive control, a centralized authority for the purpose of expressing the will of the people; before you…
— Marcus Garvey
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We have come to discover what we suspect is a new political mindset emerging among a younger generation of political leaders socialized on Internet communications.…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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You are human, whether your ancestors come from Europe, Asia, Africa, or wherever, shamanism once existed there. We are just attempting to go home to…
— Michael Harner
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The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven…
— Emma Goldman
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The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
— Milton Friedman
Who Wrote These Centralized Quotes
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