organization quotes

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

- Henry Brooks Adams
  The Education of Henry  Adams, ch.1.

Next to a letter from home,Captain Miller, your organization is the greatest morale builder in the ETO.

-James Harold Doolittle
  Of Glenn Miller's wartime band. Comment on stage after a concert for the troops at Wycombe  Abbey, 29  Jul. The words were later attributed to General Eisenhower in the publicity for the film The Glenn Miller Story (1954).

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

- Dwight D(avid) Eisenhower
   Address to the nation on Israel's invasion of Egypt, 20 Feb.

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowlyand deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius.Theresulting performance, though lessinspiring, is far more predictable.

-John Kenneth Galbraith
  The New Industrial State.

Nothing†makes a more fanatical official than a Latin. Organization is alien to their natures, but once they get the taste for it they take to it like drink.

- Shirley Hazzard
  People in Glass Houses,'Official Life'.

The bigger the organization, the fewer the jobs worth doing.

- SirAntony Rupert Jay
  Management and Machiavelli.

Surelyarchitecture is the organization for pleasure of enclosed space. And what more magnificent enclosure than a town, a place, a place where the spirit is cuddled, made serene, made proud, happy, or excited depending on the ceremony, the day, the hour.

- Philip Cortelyou Johnson
  'The Seven Crutches of  Architecture', informal talk to students, School of  Architectural Design, Harvard University, 7 Dec. Published in Perspecta 3 (1955).

Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion.

-Walter Lippmann
  Public Opinion, ch.1.

   The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Idolatry'.

An efficient organization is one in which the accounting department knows the exact cost of every useless administrative procedure which they themselves have initiated.

- E W Steacie
Quoted byJ D Babbitt in his introduction to Steacie's Science in Canada (published posthumously,1965).