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The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
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Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
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Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create…
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To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one…
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The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.
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You are attached to what you attack.
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But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.
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Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one…
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Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.
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Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines…
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That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many…
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But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and…
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the…
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Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically,…
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I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much better than…
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We've been trained to squint into a legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute against the standard of a perfect…
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Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and…
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A perfect society is built upon mutual trust. Character is the source of that trust.
— Sri Chinmoy
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Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous…
— Dennis Prager
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Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class,…
— Alexander Skarsgard
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It is not possible to create a perfect society for an imperfect man. Even if we transhipped the present man to a…
— Sorin Cerin
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When such a perfect society will be created or if it will ever be created is a question as difficult to answer…
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Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?
— Robert Shea
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