“It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.”
― The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
― The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
“Mutual understanding can never be attained by “communications down,” can never be created by talking. It can result only from “communications up.” It requires both the superior’s willingness to listen and a tool especially designed to make lower managers heard.”
― Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
― Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
“IT IS A MISTAKE to suppose that all men, or at least all Englishmen, want to be free. On the contrary, if freedom entails responsibility, many of them want none of it. They would happily exchange their liberty for a modest (if illusory) security.”
― Life At The Bottom
― Life At The Bottom
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
“How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?”
― Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
― Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
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