M. Scott Peck Quotes

When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented and diluted as to be virtually nonexistent, and the organization becomes inherently evil.

M. Scott Peck

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• I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.

  

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• At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

  

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• When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.

  

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• If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.

  

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• It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.

  

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• Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

  

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• Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.

  

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• Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.

  

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• I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.

  

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• We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

  

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• When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

  

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• When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented and diluted as to be virtually nonexistent, and the organization becomes inherently evil.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Evil
  • Organization
  • Institutions