Scale Quotes - page 3

The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered. (L. Ron Hubbard)
It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand. View quote
Joan Robinson
I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions. View quote
Lee Krasner
To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale. View quote
Édouard Vuillard
Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale. View quote
Donna Tartt
When it comes to selling stocks, it is plain that nobody can sell unless somebody wants those stocks. If you operate on a large scale you will have to bear that in mind all the time. View quote
Edwin Lefèvre
That is one trouble about trading on a large scale. You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along. View quote
Edwin Lefèvre
The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut. View quote
Dean Koontz
If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere – let them work together to accomplish on a worldwide scale, precisely the kind of democratic association of free people which characterizes the Soviet Union today. View quote
Paul Robeson
Longing on a large scale makes history. View quote
Don DeLillo
The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale. (Manuel Castells)
Hate is on a scale, and is growing on a planetary scale of unprecedented size. The violent left is coming to our streets, all of our streets, to smash, to tear down, to kill, to bankrupt, to destroy. It is will be global in its nature and global in its scope. View quote
Glenn Beck
That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off...and still have no good idea why you were really fighting. View quote
Iain Banks
[T]he class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale. View quote
David Harvey
But the net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers. View quote
David Harvey
People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others. View quote
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
The power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; - a terrible and truthful power; for such a people feel with one heart, and therefore can lift up their myriad arms for a single blow. And, again, there is no graduated scale for the measurement of the influences of different intellects upon the popular mind. Peter the Hermit held no office, yet what a work he wrought! View quote
Albert Pike
On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i. e. down to regions containing each an appreciable number of nebulae. The homogeneity assumption may then be put in the form: An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time. (Hermann Bondi)
The scale of light can be described by numbers - called the frequency - and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from red to blue to ultraviolet. We can't see ultraviolet light, but it can affect photographic plates. It's still light - only the number is different. View quote
Richard Feynman
It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million. View quote
Carl Sagan
It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex. View quote
Frances Wright
I can't be sure God does not exist... On a scale of seven, where one means I know he exists, and seven I know he doesn't, I call myself a six... That doesn't mean I'm absolutely confident, that I absolutely know, because I don't. View quote
Richard Dawkins