“We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to make out that the one is a mere perversion of the other. Therefore when we include both types under a general term like government, we get into logical difficulties; difficulties of which most writers on the subject have been more or less vaguely aware, but which, until within the last half-century, none of them has tried to resolve.” Has BeensTwoGovernmentLastsPoliticalTermHalfImpossibleSubjectsCenturyTypeOrganizationAccountsDifficultyMereLogicalResolvePerversionMake Out Author:Albert J. Nock
“When common sense sees a puzzling phenomenon it looks for a causal agent. When it sees organization it looks for an organizer. This works amazingly well for purposes ranging from the diagnosis of diseases to the creation of governments. But it cannot account for emergence ... the appearance of complex phenomena not predictable from the basic elements and processes alone.” WellsLooksGovernmentPurposeProcessCommonCreationDiseaseElementsOrganizationAccountsComplexesAppearanceCommon SenseAgentsPhenomenonPredictableDiagnosisEmergenceOrganizerPuzzling Book:Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age Source: Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age
“We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations [that is, unions or colluding organizations] of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor above their actual price.” WorldHas BeensSaidImagineSubjectsMastersEconomicsLaborOrganizationAccountsRaisesConstantUnionsIgnorantCombinationUniformsWagesWorkmenTacitWealth Of Nations Author:Adam Smith
“What had the board been doing when they see these things happening. I mean, you can write a law that says you cannot provide incentives for the openings of accounts, but I think it gets to be a deeper issue of the value structure of any organization and the value of its leaders.” ThinkingWritingMeanLawValuesLeaderIssuesHappeningsOrganizationAccountsStructureDeeperThings HappenOpeningBoardsIncentives Author:John Kasich
“No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an exception to exist in the cerebral hemispheres.” KindLongDifferentWould BeActionLawScienceExistenceDutyConnectionsOrganizationAccountsFunctionStructureCalmConvictionExceptionDifferent KindsMarvellousCerebralHemisphereSeparateness Author:Herbert Spencer
“It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.” ScienceDesireGoalPrinciplesKnowledgeEvidenceOrganizationAccountsBasesExplanationSystematicDistinctiveFactualClassification Author:Ernest Nagel
“We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled by the political organization, exert a strong influence on policy making.” WorldFirstsPoliticalStrongTakenInfluenceEconomicPolicyIgnoranceEconomicsOrganizationAccountsPrejudiceNotesConfusionFactorsPolicy Making Author:Ronald Coase