Centrally Quotes

#1. We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and centrally placed of our adversaries. We assume that they must somehow relish what they do.

Lewis Thomas

#2. Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

Mark Skousen

#3. And this is also what he takes Christian doctrine, in all its complexity, to be centrally about, that is, teaching an attitude rather than a set of propositions. Call it joyous openness to life. What's not relevant about that?

George Pattison

#4. In The Woman Reader Kate Flint argues that "the study of reading...involves examining a fulcrum: the meeting-place of discourses of subjectivity and socialization." Reading has traditionally been "a prime tool in socialization" and is "centrally bound in with questions of authority".

Ann Romines

#5. It's government's job to respect and protect the rights of the individual. That vision is centrally important to the principle put forth by the Founding Fathers. If you don't believe that, you shouldn't be in Congress.

Bill Sali

#6. The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.

Dave Matthews

#7. If marriage is centrally an emotional union, rather than one inherently ordered to family life, it becomes much harder to show why the state should concern itself with marriage any more than with friendship. Why involve the state in what amounts to the legal regulation of tenderness?

Sherif Girgis

#8. But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.

Herman Melville

#9. Reducing risk, which is the primary mission of testing, clearly creates economic value for product developers. In fact, reducing risk is so centrally important to product development that it is indispensable for us to quantify its economic impact.

Donald G. Reinertsen

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

David Miliband

#11. PROGRESSIVISM = EUGENICS: Centrally Planned economies tempt population control.

A.E. Samaan

#12. Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

Rollo May

#13. This is not a dispute about whether planning is to be done or not. It is a dispute as to whether planning is to be done centrally, by one authority for the whole economic system, or is to be divided among many individuals.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#14. There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.

Leo Ornstein

#15. A totalitarian regime thus has one political party, one educational system, one artistic creed, one centrally planned economy, one unified media, and one moral code. In a totalitarian state there are no independent schools, no private businesses, no grassroots organizations, and no critical thought.

Anne Applebaum

#16. A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it.

Paul Kriwaczek

#17. A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.

A.E. Samaan

#18. It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.

Wilfred Bion

#19. Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.

A.E. Samaan

#20. The evolvement of proteolysis as a centrally important regulatory mechanism is a remarkable example for the development of a novel biological concept and the accompanying battles to change paradigms.

Aaron Ciechanover

#21. The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

Donald Knuth

#22. There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city [of London] becomes incongruent. It doesn't have any coherence anymore.

Alasdair MacLean

#23. It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.

James Ellroy

#24. Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.

A.E. Samaan

#25. Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.

Norm MacDonald

#26. California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

Denis Kearney

#27. I just - I like the saccharin and the gooeyness of 'Bachelor,' and how just gross and like falsely romantic it is. Whereas, like, the 'Real Housewives' is just raw, and it's just - it's the fights that get me. It's just very uncomfortable for me.

Ken Marino

#28. In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

Pablo Picasso

#29. I do not sleep to dream
but dream to change the world

Martin Carter

#30. While markets are supposed to ensure transparency by showing orders to everyone simultaneously, flash orders are currently allowed because of a loophole in securities regulations that allows for immediate trades.

Charles Duhigg

#31. Stephen, q a man full of faith and r of the Holy Spirit,

Anonymous

#32. Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Rumi