Quotes About Decentralization

#1. All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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

Anthony Gregory

#3. The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

Brock Yates

#4. 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

#5. Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

Paul Farmer

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

Karl E. Weick

#7. 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

#8. once we wrapped the globe in endless circles of wires crossing the deserts and beneath the oceans, decentralization was not only possible, but inevitable.

Kevin Kelly

#9. As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is crucial to both freedom and excellence.

Jerry Brown

#10. American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#11. It might therefore be better for the decentralization to be designed by a centralized authority, with the interest of the less advantaged or less powerful in mind. Power to the people, but not all the power.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#12. True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of free federation from the simple to the compound, in lieu of the present hierarchy from the centre to the periphery.

Peter Kropotkin

#13. In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.

Alexander Dubcek

#14. One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

Dorothy Nevill

#15. Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Leadership view is multidimensional with the full spectrum of colors.

Pearl Zhu

#17. It was now or never. Zane took a slow, deep breath and ducked his chin, tilted his head sideways, and slid his lips firmly against Ty's.

Abigail Roux

#18. Fighting newspaper editors for the last word was a losing proposition.

Harold Holzer

#19. The fashion game is fun for architects to play and diverting for the public to watch, but it's deadly for building users. When the height of fashion moves on, they're the ones left behind, stuck in a building that was designed to look good rather than work well, and now it doesn't even look good.

Stewart Brand

#20. That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive.

Sarah Silverman