Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.
Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Expenditures rise to meet income.
The smaller the function, the greater the management.
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
The man who is denied the opportunity of making decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to make.
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
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