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Give up control even if it means the employees have to make some mistakes.
Give up control even if it means the employees have to make some mistakes.
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.
The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
No one has a right to happiness.
No one has a right to happiness.
War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems read more
Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became.
One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making read more
One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on the more usual (and more exciting) principle of substituting "the good guys" for "the bad guys.".
