James Anderson

“culture 1. the predominant attitudes and behavior of a group 2. lots of lip service is given to the notion of a company’s culture, as well as nurturing it, because it’s supposedly so healthy and awesome. However, it’s really just the specific and unique ways in which an organization is dysfunctional and screwed up, and a random product of all of the neuroses and insecurities of the people who work there. 3. foundation for many of the nonsensical unspoken rules regarding behavior and communication particular to an organization, department, etc., that you will know you have violated when people act really uncomfortable after you say or do something that, in real life, is totally normal. These employees may try to explain why you have just violated a sacred corporate tenet, but in most cases will stop short of doing so, as they can’t bring themselves to verbalize the lunacy they are advocating and know it makes them sound really stupid.”
― Lois Beckwith, The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit: An A to Z Lexicon of Empty, Enraging, and Just Plain Stupid Office Talk

“Satan’s system can be described in a multitude of ways, but for the past three centuries his hand has largely been an invisible one, operating through industry and technology, markets and capitalism.”
― Ed Simon, Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain

“The primary goal of healthcare is to generate income for providers. Other goals, like preventing sickness and empowering people, can happen, but only if the first goal is met.”
― Ricardo Nuila, The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine

“Basically, the Christian community failed to be any more of an opposition to Nazism than any other institution in German society, be it the university, the courts, or the military.”
― Dean G. Stroud, Preaching in Hitler's Shadow: Sermons of Resistance in the Third Reich