Organizational Discipline Quotes

I am for the Comintern from start to finish ... and if the Comintern finds itself criss-cross with my opinions, there is only one thing to do and that is to change my opinions to fit the policy of the Comintern.

All organizations are hierarchical. At each level people serve under those above them. An organization is therefore a structured institution. If it is not structured, it is a mob. Mobs do not get things done, they destroy things.

The Catholic Church is and has been one of the strongest and most consistent counter-revolutionary forces in society. In [our] struggles we find this organization a formidable opponent. The reason for this is its ideological unity and its organizational centralization. If we revolutionists have not already learned these lessons in our experience, we could learn the value of ideological unity and organizational centralization from the Catholic Church.

We don't have meetings unless absolutely necessary.

Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and in which discipline and order have not been established.

There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization.

On those rare occasions when successful [political] reform organizations have been welded together they have developed techniques of political astuteness, leadership and discipline not unlike political machines.

The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.

Criticism may be made without regard to organizational discipline:

I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.

In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.

All Party organizations should maintain implementing the Party's lines and policies as the major line of Party work, and carry every one of them to completion unconditionally.