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Quotes About Organization

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
~ Honore de Balzac
Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization
~ Susan Jacoby
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.
~ Donald O. Hebb
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
~ Edmund Burke
We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.
~ E. W. Howe
I will set a target for the reduction of (government) employees ... I will implement the reduction of the total personnel costs of the employees.
~ Junichiro Koizumi
What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.
~ Frederic Bastiat
The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.
~ Charles Eastman
Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.
~ Arlo Guthrie
The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau.
~ Hugh S. Johnson
The government cannot become a bailout organization for companies on the verge of bankruptcy.
~ Martin Winterkorn
It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.
~ Pope Leo XIII
Los Angeles County government is a "Soviet-style system," with too many people only sort of in charge and no person sufficiently at the helm to take responsibility.
~ Zev Yaroslavsky
Government should take management lesson from private sector.
~ Newt Gingrich
We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats...
~ James C. Collins
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
I have a great office.
~ R. L. Stine
To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.
~ Swami Vivekananda
There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.
~ Aries Spears