„The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.“
Quelle: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
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„His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.“
— Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935

„Democracy has become confused with ignorance, lack of discipline, and low tastes“
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice President and the second President of India 1888 - 1975
Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)
Kontext: Democracy has become confused with ignorance, lack of discipline, and low tastes … Though educational facilities are within the reach of large numbers, the level of culture is not high. It has become more easy to get into a college and more difficult to get educated. We are taught to read but not trained to think … Those who know better are afraid to speak out but keep step with the average mind. Uncivilized mass-impulses, crowd emotions and class-resentments have taken the place of authority and tradition.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, buch The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Quelle: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 26
— Paul Ormerod, buch The Death of Economics
Part I, Chapter 5, Mechanistic Modelling, p. 112
The Death of Economics (1994)
„Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence“
— Laurence J. Peter Canadian eductor 1919 - 1990
Quelle: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 107 (The Mathematics of Incompetence)

— Erich Fromm, buch Die Kunst des Liebens
The portion of this statement, "Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence" has been widely quoted alone, resulting in a less reserved expression, and sometimes the portion following it has been as well: "Any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature."
The Art of Loving (1956)
Kontext: Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves. All activities are subordinated to economic goals, means have become ends; man is an automaton — well fed, well clad, but without any ultimate concern for that which is his peculiarly human quality and function. If man is to be able to love, he must be put in his supreme place. The economic machine must serve him, rather than he serve it. He must be enabled to share experience, to share work, rather than, at best, share in profits. Society must be organized in such a way that man's social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it. If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature. <!-- p. 111 - 112

„Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.“
— Viktor E. Frankl Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor 1905 - 1997

— Brian W. Aldiss British science fiction author 1925 - 2017
“Man on Bridge” pp. 90-91
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

— Buenaventura Durruti Spanish anarchist 1896 - 1936
On his military leadership against fascist troops in Spain, as quoted in "Durruti Is Dead, Yet Living" (1936) http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Writings/Essays/durruti.html, by Emma Goldman
Kontext: I have been an Anarchist all my life. I hope I have remained one. I should consider it very sad indeed, had I to turn into a general and rule the men with a military rod. They have come to me voluntarily, they are ready to stake their lives in our antifascist fight. I believe, as I always have, in freedom. The freedom which rests on the sense of responsibility. I consider discipline indispensable, but it must be inner discipline, motivated by a common purpose and a strong feeling of comradeship.

— Edgar Allan Poe American author, poet, editor and literary critic 1809 - 1849
The Raven and Other Poems (1845), Preface

„Strategy will compensate the talent.
The talent will never compensate the strategy.“
— Marco Pierre White English chef and restaurateur 1961

— Erik Naggum Norwegian computer programmer 1965 - 2009
Re: New Lisp ? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.functional/msg/b69c767370ee7c43 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

— Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970
Quelle: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 12: Free Thought and Official Propaganda http://books.google.com/books?id=9tQsg5ITfHsC&q=%22The+State+is+a+collection+of+officials+different+for+different+purposes+drawing+comfortable+incomes+so+long+as+the+status+quo+is+preserved+The+only+alteration+they+are+likely+to+desire+in+the+status+quo+is+an+increase+of+bureaucracy+and+the+power+of+bureaucrats%22&pg=PA134#v=onepage
— George Stigler American economist 1911 - 1991
"Inferior Workers" sub-section, p. 12
"The problem of the Negro," 1965

— G. K. Chesterton English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874 - 1936
Quelle: Utopia of Usurers (1917), p. 23