Robert Shea Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“You are attached to what you attack.”

“Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.”

“Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?”

“The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.”

“Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.”

“Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.”

“Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.”

“That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.”

“But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.”

“Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.”