American - Author | April 17, 1909 - March 10, 1994
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
Robert Shea
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Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.
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A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.
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Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?
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As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out.
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You are attached to what you attack.
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But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.
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Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards.
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Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
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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.
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To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.
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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.
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