Quotes About Structure

People who had the money to bribe, who fundamentally believed that anyone could be bribed, and who had outsize influence on the legal structures that might otherwise restrict bribery, had become major foreign policy players in key parts of the world.

Your organization is perfectly designed to produce the results it's producing.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

liberal individualism triumphed as long as it undermined intermediate structures such as nations, corporations, castes, but when it attacked that ultimate social structure, the family, and thus the birthrate, it signed its own death warrant; Muslim dominance was a foregone conclusion).

Le monde était quand même bizarrement organisé.

Pi?kna struktura systemu feudalnego, tak pracowicie i drobiazgowo zbudowana przez historyków prawa, jest w wielu punktach tworem fantazji i nie wytrzymuje próby analizy, gdy si? bli?ej przyjrze? konkretnym realiom ?ycia codziennego.

The theocracy, like other autocratic political systems, is the most conservative form of social structure. Modern democracies, for all their flaws, have evolved as mature political systems that protect against the religious and secular excesses of totalitarian regimes. Democracies do not declare war against each other, as Kant claimed in his essay, Perpetual Peace (1795), because he thought that a majority of the people would never vote to go to war unless in self defense.

Dante recognized that every system of spiritual order, when it becomes incorporated into a worldly structure like an organized church, begins to suffer the effects of entropy. So to extract meaning from a system of beliefs a person must first compare the information contained in it with his or her concrete experience, retain what makes sense, and then reject the rest.

Cultures are defensive constructions against chaos, designed to reduce the impact of randomness on experience. They

By the sixth century B.C. Pythagoras and his students had embarked on the immense ordering task that attempted to find common numerical laws binding together astronomy, geometry, music, and arithmetic. Not surprisingly, their work was difficult to distinguish from religion, since it tried to accomplish similar goals: to find a way of expressing the structure of the universe. Two thousand years later, Kepler and then Newton were still on the same quest. Theoretical

Free time, on the other hand, is unstructured, and requires much greater effort to be shaped into something that can be enjoyed.

Compartmentalize

Instead of being exoskeletons or blobs, our churches need endoskeletons. An endoskeleton is the power behind the movement and the key component that no one ever sees. It brings structure, intentionality, agility, and life.

Everything behind the walls is the most important, everything else is a bonus.

Whether our lives are magnificent or wretched depends upon our ordering of daily details. We must organize the details into a composition that pleases

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

Architecture is politics.

enumeró las características fundamentales de las organizaciones burocráticas: puestos de trabajo específicos, con derechos, obligaciones, responsabilidades y límites a su autoridad, detallados y bien conocidos, así como un sistema claro de supervisión, subordinación y unidad de mando. Estas

As the historian William McNeill observed, "Innumerable bureaucratic structures that had previously acted more or less independently of one another in a context of market relationships coalesced into what amounted to a single national firm for waging war"—a process that played out in every combatant nation.18

la tercera forma de autoridad —y la más apropiada a los tiempos modernos—, decía, era la «burocrática» y «racional», apoyada en leyes y ejercida por una estructura administrativa capaz de hacer respetar unas normas claras y consistentes.

opinaba Weber, la clave para ejercer el poder en la sociedad moderna era la organización burocrática.

el poder estructura la sociedad, contribuye a regir las relaciones y a organizar las interacciones entre las personas dentro de cada comunidad y entre las comunidades y naciones.

First, does the manipulation change the structure of the existing situation, or does it instead change the second party's assessment of the situation? • Second, does the manipulation offer the second party an improvement, or does it instead lead the second party to accept a result that is not an improvement?