Centralised Quotes

#1. to secure as much of the advantages of centralised power and intelligence, as can be had without turning into governmental channels too great a proportion of the general activity, is one of the most difficult and complicated questions in the art of government.

John Stuart Mill

#2. The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

William Hague

#3. The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics.

George Orwell

#4. Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.

Pankaj Mishra

#5. In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.

David Miliband

#6. Custine described them as 'automata inconvenienced with a soul': a description true, perhaps, of all bureaucrats fearful for their jobs but truest of all where power is both arbitrary and completely centralised, as it was in Russia.

Theodore Dalrymple

#7. 'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the creation and imposition of a European superstate, one centralised in Brussels.

Charles Kennedy

#8. Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology.

Craig Venter

#9. For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

Pankaj Mishra

#10. Every country has the government it deserves.

Joseph De Maistre

#11. I'm part of a speech therapy course called the Maguire Programme. It isn't a cure; it's something you need to maintain and work on. I get days where I find things more difficult than others.

Gareth Gates

#12. Maybe in a way all living things are like flickering flames in a precarious night, always on the verge of being extinguished. Whether we kindle slowly but steadily, or go out in a brilliant burst of light and color, is our choice. Perhaps the most important choice we'll ever have.

Nenia Campbell

#13. Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all female dogs have, she tries to lick my ears off.

Dave Barry

#14. Your tears proves that you are an emotional human being; love, joy, sadness and misery touches you deeply.

Debasish Mridha

#15. There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

Michael Cunningham

#16. Your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me ...

Charlotte Bronte

#17. The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend.

Bianca Scardoni

#18. 4153. Seven

Sophia Smith

#19. I like to play these unconventional characters, yes. They're close to the way I feel as a human being.

Ken Stott

#20. Some of the big movies, you get checks for a long, long time.

Leland Orser

#21. I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.

Dee Dee Myers

#22. I want to describe myself, not be described by others.

Johnnie Cochran