#operation

In Astrology, the moon, among its other meanings, has that of "the common people," who submit (they know not why) to any independent will that can express itself with sufficient energy. The people who guillotined the mild Louis XVI died gladly for Napoleon. The impossibility of an actual democracy is due to this fact of mob-psychology. As soon as you group men, they lose their personalities. A parliament of the wisest and strongest men in the nation is liable to behave like a set of schoolboys, tearing up their desks and throwing their inkpots at each other. The only possibility of co-operation lies in discipline and autocracy, which men have sometimes established in the name of equal rights. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#cooperation #democracy #discipline #equality #government

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. ↗

— Chief Seattle

#family #family

The waves smash against rocks, boulder thunders upon bolder. Granite men grind one another, leaving their clean sand to floor the ocean. The alternative would be for the republic to breed up a race of men who could work together without growing violent: men more interested in getting somewhere than having their own way." Haniel Long: Homestead 1892: Pittsburgh Memoranda. ↗

— Haniel Long

#inspirational-quotes #working-together #inspirational

But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity. ↗

— John Abizaid

#capacity #cooperation #focus #forces #iraqi

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation. ↗

— John Abizaid

#i #i do #know #military #military operation

Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here. ↗

— John Abizaid

#because #better #bin #boss #clearly

Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ↗

— Elisha Gray

#finding #law #lies #many #may

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#end #in the end #operations #people #product

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation. ↗

— Walt Kelly

#done #energy #enough #good #intention

We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#coherence #countries #developing #focus #increase