"That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail……" — Robert Shea
"That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar."
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26 Quotes by Robert Shea
Robert Shea has 26 quotes on this site.
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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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But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals,…
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Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.
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And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all…
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The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions…
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A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population…
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Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an…
— Thomas Naylor
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Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one…
— Unknown Author
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A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression…
— Sebastian Haffner
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Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that…
— Germaine Greer
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Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry…
— Paulo Freire
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RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and…
— Bertrand Russell
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Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development ,…
— Simon Baron-Cohen
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I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never…
— Mickey Rourke
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But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the-that…
— George W. Bush
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