Quotes on Efficiency

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.

A place for everything, everything in its place.