Berlin Quote by Elisabeth of Wied

Just imagine going to war over Danzig - such a world catastrophe, just to prevent Germany from getting a piece of territory that belonged…

— Joachim von Ribbentrop

If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in…

— Johann Most

“In examining the division of powers, as established by the Federal Constitution, remarking on the one hand the portion of sovereignty which has been…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

— Karl E. Weick

I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.

— Erich Fromm

The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the…

— George Gilder

It is possible in theory and I think true in practice that centralization could have been the optimal solution at the beginning of the…

— Steven Pearlstein

We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and…

— Emma Goldman

Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains…

— Edward Forbes

“The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies,…

— George Gilder