Centralization Quotes

• Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari

  Opportunity, Answers, Today

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• 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.

  Edward Forbes

  Ocean, Space, Research

  Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.10

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• 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.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Strong, Mean, People

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• If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.

  Johann Most

  Country, World, Assuming

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• Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.

  Aldous Huxley

  Power, Technology, Political

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Why Not, Ifs

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• 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.

  David Harvey

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Form

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

  Karl E. Weick

  Real, Achieve, Simultaneous

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• Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Use, Permit

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violent, Structure, Inconsistent

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.119, A&C Black

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• It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the small peoples, and that among the large ones there was more happiness and content in proportion as they had avoided the deadly blight of centralization.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Proportion, Blight, Found

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• 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.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Self, Liberty

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• 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

  Art, Atmosphere, Liberty

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.30, 谷月社

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• Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Clouds, Computer, Server

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• Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

  David Lilienthal

  Reality, Government, Pieces

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• 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.

  Astra Taylor

  Silly, Thinking, Creating

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the American political lexicon, 'change' always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, and more centralization of power.

  Ron Paul

  War, Mean, Government

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• [Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!

  Elisabeth of Wied

  Country, Powerful, Berlin

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• 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.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Airports, Government, Cities

  "Computer crime" by Gerald McKnight, (p. 203), 1973.

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• 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.

  Carroll Quigley

  Order, Nwo, Growth

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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

  Erich Fromm

  Mixtures, Socialism, Modern

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

  Anthony Gregory

  Struggle, American History, Core

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• 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.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Believe, Army, Government

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• 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

  C. Wright Mills

  Mean, Men, Keys

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.28, Oxford University Press

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• The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Support, Speech, Vote

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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