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The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history. -- Anthony Gregory
Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas. -- Dorothy Nevill
The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization. -- Karl E. Weick
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns. -- Brock Yates
American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is crucial to both freedom and excellence. -- Jerry Brown
Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme. -- Herbert Simon
All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. -- Paul Farmer
True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of free federation from the simple to the compound, in lieu of the present hierarchy from the centre to the periphery. -- Peter Kropotkin
Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology. -- Noam Chomsky
I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization. -- Erich Fromm
In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector. -- Alexander Dubcek

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