“This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.” HumansAbleWealthSimpleStudyGroupsInfluenceHugeAmountActivityConcernedLaborDirectEnormousIncomeCommandCivilizedPeasantsPriesthoodSurplusPeriodicity Author:Carroll Quigley
“I think we've made the collection haystack so big, no one's ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause.” PeopleThinkingNeedsMadeBigsCausesGroupsResourcesEnormousCollectionsSuspiciousNeedlesNsaProbable Cause Author:Rand Paul
“The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure of one's own money, but to some extent the system is. We cannot have a system in which the only people you can count on for a vote that doesn't look as though it might be a vote for a special-interest group are people with enormous fortunes.” PeopleIfsLooksMightPoliticsInterestGroupsSpecialVoteElectionFortuneEnormousSpecial InterestsExpendituresInterest GroupsSpecial Interest Groups Book:Speaking up Source: Speaking up
“Oh God, modern life with all its feelings. ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about nowadays is getting in touch with their feelings. ... The world has become one enormous group therapy session. It's a terrible bore. My motto is, 'Thank you for not sharing!” WorldFeelingsGroupsModernTerribleEnormousTherapyBoresMottoSessionModern LifeMy MottoCallousGroup Therapy Author:Jane Stanton Hitchcock
“With problems and issues groups face- there is an enormous disconnect between understanding and doing.” ProblemFacesUnderstandingIssuesGroupsEnormous Author:Marshall Goldsmith