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Nothing so effectively economizes effort and intelligence, as distinct from anxiety, as the knowledge that nothing can be done.
The New Industrial State (1967)
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
The New Industrial State (1967)
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
The New Industrial State (1967)
If a man be subject to the authority of another, he can at least ask that it not be an occasion for glee.
The New Industrial State (1967)
No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.
The New Industrial State (1967)
Should there be sacrifice, as always in the mature corporation, it is not suffered by those who agree to it.
The New Industrial State (1967)
Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.
The New Industrial State (1967)
To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.
The New Industrial State (1967)
Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
The New Industrial State (1967)
But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.
The New Industrial State (1967)
The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning.
The New Industrial State (1967)
Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.
The New Industrial State (1967)
Those who yearn for the defeat of their enemy are said to wish that he might write a book.
The New Industrial State (1967)
Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.
The New Industrial State (1967)
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.
The New Industrial State (1967)
The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
The New Industrial State (1967)
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplifications of our culture.
The New Industrial State (1967)
Because individuals have more standing in the culture than organizations, they regularly get credit for achievement that belongs, in fact, to organization.
The New Industrial State (1967)
Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.
The New Industrial State (1967)
It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual.
The New Industrial State (1967)