| "The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence." »Joan Baez |
| "I have built my organization upon fear." »Al Capone |
| "The art of government is the organization of idolatry." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "The Kennedy organization doesn't run, it purrs." »Rowland Evans, Jr. |
| "organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment." »Louis D. Brandeis |
| "Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order." »Sir Arthur Helps |
| "In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal." »Hannah Arendt |
| "Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds." »Henry Adams |
| "The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual." »Vince Lombardi |
| "With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed." »Clarence Darrow |
| "The single most important factor in determining the climate of an organization is the top executive." »Charles Galloway |
| "Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization." »Jon Bentley |
| "It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up." »Charles Sorenson |
| "A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands." »Niccolo Machiavelli |
| "An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success." »M. Shawn Covey |
| "The true Church is not an organization, nor does one join it through the noisy mechanics of denominational machinery. Rather it is a living organism, a body, and believers are joined to it by the quiet working of the Holy Spirit." »Cornelius Stam |
| "It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up." »F. M. Young |
| "The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up." »Harold R. McAlindon |
| "Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind." »S. E. Lindsay |
| "If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. Whose fault is that Not really McCarthy's. He didn't create this situation of fear. He merely exploited it, and rather successfully." »Edward R. Murrow |
| "Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom." »Bernard De Voto |
| "The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election." »Gerald R. Ford |
| "I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader." »Stephen Covey |
| "It is not possible to have a politics-free organization. The desire for power and control is part of human nature. Successful business leaders know how to leverage organizational politics by setting performance-oriented instead of resourcesoriented political rewards." »Med Yones |
| "You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning." »Warren Bennis |
| "Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods--in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations." »Albert Einstein |
| "The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes." »Albert Einstein |
| "Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race" »Albert Einstein |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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