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  • The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

  • It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

    George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.15, 1st World Publishing
  • OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

    Time   Book   Men  
    Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.87, Courier Corporation
  • Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.

    Annoyed   Watches   Awe  
  • The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle

  • You have no idea how much of the inefficiency of mankind comes from thinking about the wrong-doings of others, and of ourselves. There is nothing more miserable than to feel that by some mistake in life you have not amounted to what you might have, and that your misfortunes all hinge on that mistake.

    Emma Curtis Hopkins (2012). “Scientific Christian Mental Practice”, p.172, Jazzybee Verlag
  • How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

    Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.1322, Library of America
  • Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the 'criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.

    Ron Paul's newsletter (1992), as quoted in "10 Extreme Claims in Ron Paul’s Controversial Newsletters" by Andy Kroll, www.motherjones.com. January 3, 2012.
  • Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent inefficiencies. They're very destructive.

    "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.
  • As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.

    David C. Korten (1995). “When Corporations Rule the World”, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
  • The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.

    "VIDEO: Obama's gaffe" by Amie Parnes, www.politico.com. July 20, 2009.
  • The problems that are arising at Johannesburg International Airport are because of the growth of volume, not because of inefficiencies at the Airport. But, the growth in movement of goods by air means that cargo capacity needs to be improved. And I am quite certain that we will do it.

    Mean   Airports   Growth  
    Source: www.gov.za
  • Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

    Mean   Growth   Waste  
  • Even if your company’s financial condition can withstand the inefficiency of quality service, your brand likely won’t.

  • We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

  • The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy

    Country   War   Navy  
  • The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

    Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)
  • Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

    Effort   Community   Tape  
  • Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

    Greg Bear (2014). “Eon”, p.117, Open Road Media
  • Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

    Country   Truth   Mean  
    Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. Had I not been a therapist, I would have been an efficiency expert.

  • We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

  • All the alleged key causes of SOE [State-Owned Enterprise] inefficiency - the principal-agent problem, the free-rider problem and the soft budget constraint - are, while real, not unique to state-owned enterprises. Large private-sector firms with dispersed ownership also suffer from the principal-agent problem and the free-rider problem. So, in these two areas, forms of ownership do matter, but the critical divide is not between state and private ownership - it is between concentrated and dispersed ownerships.

    Real   Unique   Keys  
    "Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism". Book by Ha-Joon Chang, en.wikiquote.org. 2008.
  • There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for a minute-give you pause-are good.

    Giving   World   Kind  
  • Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.

  • The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

    Ignorance   Men   Average  
    Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.

    Country   Moving   Past  
  • It is like using a smoke screen, the same thing for an individual. The topic here is Islam. If French politicians are no longer talking about Islam, they know they will have to talk about something else, which brings the spotlight on their inefficiency. They will have to talk about domestic social and economic issues and they will have to justify their foreign policy, which is obviously something they need to avoid at all costs.

    Issues   Talking   Islam  
    Source: themuslimtimes.info
  • Every struggle, whether won or lost, strengthens us for the next to come. It is not good for people to have an easy life. They become weak and inefficient when they cease to struggle. Some need a series of defeats before developing the strength and courage to win a victory.

  • Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.

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