#inefficiency

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#been #country #direct #efficiency #efficient

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#cannot #idleness #inefficiency #waste #we cannot

What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return -- every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers. ↗

— Peter Viereck

#art #beauty #conservatism #freedom #inefficiency

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#inefficient #taxation #waste #wasting #business

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#average #average man #carefully #cheerful #crumbs

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty. ↗

— Ellen Wilkinson

#commercialism #could #extravagance #fitted #illness

That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#because #does #ecological #financial #financial systems

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#freud #gene #had #i #i think

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. ↗

— Bill Gates

#any #applied #automation #business #efficiency

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency. ↗

— Eugene McCarthy

#inefficiency #only #saves #the only thing #thing