Centralization Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Centralization". There are currently 44 quotes in our collection about Centralization. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Centralization!
The best sayings about Centralization that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of power; that the men of the circles composing this elite, severally and collectively, now make such key decisions as are made; and that, given the enlargement and the centralization of the means of power now available, the decisions that they make and fail to make carry more consequences for more people than has ever been the case in the world history of mankind

    Mean   Men   Keys  
    C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.28, Oxford University Press
  • Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

  • Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

    Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.119, A&C Black
  • A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

    Book   Self   Censorship  
    Erica Jong (1994). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.36, Grove Press
  • The net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.

    "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.
  • The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups.

    Order   Nwo   Growth  
    Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]
  • Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in a world where certain conservative aspects had become intellectually dominant. I would actually argue against that, but on the surface of it, in the [Bill] Clinton years the market economy triumphed, certain libertarian ideas became ordinary, and certain early-20th-century ideas about centralization of government and economic planning and socialism with a small "s" had obviously gone out the window. The Cold War was over, blah blah blah.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • All the utopianism of the early days of the Internet seems to have dissipated. But I don't want us to lose that utopianism altogether, even if it was naïve and ill-informed and sometimes silly. Rather I want us to ask about the obstacles that are preventing the good stuff from coming to fruition. Let's investigate and think about creating something worthwhile instead of assuming that there is an inevitable track of increased centralization, consolidation, and commercialization that we can't do anything about.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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 science, all these being impossible in a clock-like, mechanical atmosphere.

    Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.30, 谷月社
  • I'm a federalist. I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.

  • Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.

    Ocean   Space   Research  
    Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.10
  • The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.

    Support   Speech   Vote  
    Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated
  • The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

  • On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.

  • I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.

  • Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed towards our species goal: Space Migration, which in turn offers the only way to re-attain individual freedom of space-time and the small-group social structures which obviously best suit our nervous systems. It is another paradox of neuro-genetics that only in space habitats can humanity return to the village life and pastoral style for which we all long.

    Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, George A. Koopman (1988). “Neuropolitique”, New Falcon Publications
  • Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skyscrapers, and government compounds increases its vulnerability. ... choosing his targets, today's saboteur could pollute a city's water supply, dynamite power transmission towers, cripple an airport control center, destroy a corporate or government computer center.

    "Computer crime" by Gerald McKnight, (p. 203), 1973.
  • The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

  • To check centralization and usurping of power ... we require a new laissez-faire. The old laissez-faire was founded upon a misapprehension of human nature, an exultation of individuality (in private character often a virtue) to the condition of a political dogma, which destroyed the spirit of community and reduced men to so many equipollent atoms of humanity, without sense of brotherhood or purpose.

    Russell Kirk (1978). “The conservative mind: from Burke to Eliot”
  • If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from the open ages of radio, film, or the telephone. Might it not also have seemed in those times that the orgy of limitless entrepreneurism would never end? The point is that we are near the high end of a pendulum arc that, so far, has aways begun to swing in the opposite direction -toward greater integration and centralization- with a force that can seem inexorable.

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

    Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu
  • Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

  • Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. 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, regulators, and elite institutions- all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.

  • Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore the Republic to Constitutional direction, regain our personal liberties and reassume the individual state's primary responsibility and authority in the conduct of local affairs? Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?

  • People who resist authority, who defend the rights of the individual, who try in a period of increasing totalitarianism and centralization to reclaim these rights - this is the true left in the United States.

    Rights   People   Trying  
    Source: reason.com
  • Being the governor of a state is a more pivotal job in the future. I do indeed hope there's someone that says, "I'm going to go to Washington, try to get back to our constitutional roots, devolve the centralization of government back to the states." So why would you want to be up there if the action is down here in the states?

    Jobs   Government   Roots  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.

    Technology   Use   Permit  
    Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.
  • The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence.

    Strong   Mean   People  
  • 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 skills, except through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores. … And if they deem Soviet power a menace to our freedom (as I happen to), they will have to support large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, and the attendant centralization of power in Washington-even with Truman at the reins of it all.

    War   Army   Government  
Page 1 of 2
  • 1
  • 2
  • We hope our collection of Centralization quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Centralization is constantly growing (today it includes 44 sayings from famous people about Centralization), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
    Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Centralization!