"It is instructive, for instance, to trace the……" — Robert Shea
"It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous."
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26 Quotes by Robert Shea
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The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest…
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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…
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To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to…
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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…
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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…
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That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which…
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But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals,…
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