C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes

"Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull."
-C. Northcote Parkinson in Life quotes.

"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."
-C. Northcote Parkinson in Delay quotes.

"Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse."
-C. Northcote Parkinson

"Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich."
-C. Northcote Parkinson

"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."
-C. Northcote Parkinson

"Expenditure rises to meet income."
-C. Northcote Parkinson

"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom."
-C. Northcote Parkinson

"The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take."
-C. Northcote Parkinson