Quotes About Centralization

#1. Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.

Evgeny Morozov

#3. Centralization of the means of production and socialization of labor at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument.

Karl Marx

#4. It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the small peoples, and that among the large ones there was more happiness and content in proportion as they had avoided the deadly blight of centralization.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#5. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups.

Carroll Quigley

#6. On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.

Charles Baudelaire

#7. Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.

Aldous Huxley

#8. The cultivation of a single staple grain was, in itself, an important step in legibility and hence, appropriation. Monoculture fosters uniformity at many different levels. . .A society shaped powerfully by monoculture was easier to monitor, assess, and tax than one shaped by agricultural diversity.

James C. Scott

#9. The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and that's what allowed it to flourish for the first 10 or 15 years.

Matt Mullenweg

#10. No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.

Calvin Coolidge

#11. Centralization is an abomination! Decentralize everything! Leave nothing to the central planners.

A.E. Samaan

#12. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.

Edward Forbes

#13. The net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.

David Harvey

#14. The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.

Calvin Coolidge

#15. In the American political lexicon, 'change' always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, and more centralization of power.

Ron Paul

#16. Centralization and socialism are products of the same soil. The one is to the other what the cultivated fruit is to the wild stock.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#17. I am of opinion, that, in the democratic ages which are opening upon us, individual independence and local liberties will ever be the produce of artificial contrivance; that centralization will be the natural form of government.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#18. In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.

Mario Monti

#19. Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

David Lilienthal

#20. They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science, all these being impossible in a clock-like, mechanical atmosphere.

Emma Goldman

#21. [Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!

Elisabeth Of Wied

#22. Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.

Ron Paul

#23. Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

Carlos Salinas De Gortari

#24. I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#25. If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!

Frank Lloyd Wright

#26. The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed ... The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.

E.F. Schumacher

#27. Organizational theorists, at least since Burns and Stalker, 1961 and Joan Woodward, 1965 in what came to be called the contingency school, have recognized that centralization is appropriate for organizations with routine tasks, and decentralization for those with nonroutine tasks.

Charles Perrow

#28. The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

Karl E. Weick

#29. In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

Robert W. Welch Jr.

#30. Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme.

Herbert Simon

#31. A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

Erica Jong

#32. If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.

Johann Most

#33. The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence.

Mikhail Bakunin

#34. The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

Anthony Gregory