Organisation Quotes - Page 10

• As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.

  Bob Hawke

  Sports, Should Have, Concerned

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• There was a time, with the Berlin Wall down, that [it looked as if] the UN finally could do what it was set up to do, the rivalry between the two camps would dissipate, and we could all co-operate. And then, of course, Iraq came and blew it all apart. These upheavals will always take place in the world, and the design and construct of the UN ideally should be such that it can deal with these upheavals, and possibly influence them, and survive and thrive, but it doesn't work out that way, because as an organisation we are so dependent on the same member states.

  Kofi Annan

  Wall, Two, Iraq

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• What is the nature of the genetic endowment? How does acquisition proceed? Etc. Scientists do routinely ask similar questions about the visual system, system of motor organisation, and others - including, in fact, the digestive system.

  Noam Chomsky

  Doe, Acquisition, Etc

  Source: libcom.org

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• I think it's time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Army, Thinking, People

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• The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil, and an intelligent life is preferable to a stupid life. It so happened that philosophy was born with these values. Scientific thought had to break this union of value judgment and analysis, for it became increasingly clear that the philosophic values did not guide the organisation of society.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Philosophy, Stupid, Intelligent

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.126, Beacon Press

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• A high percentage of organisations develop a military rationale, whereby only a very small number of people make all of the decisions. There is little wonder, then, that people aren't keen to get out of bed and come to work on a Monday morning.

  Ricardo Semler

  Monday, Morning, Military

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• When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.

  Chris DeWolfe

  Mom, Growing Up, Dad

  "The man who put teenagers' lives online". Interview with Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2006.

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• Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can make is to begin with other people as though the answers mattered.

  William Greider

  Powerful, Creating, People

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• ...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Communication, Practice, Revolution

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• Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

  Guy Debord

  Art, Direct, Sensations

  Internationale Situationist (Paris), No. 1, June 1958.

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• The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Enemy, Reason

  "Drain the swamp and there will be no more mosquitoes" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2002.

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• I have found a beautiful summary of the way I work with organisations, and the values I seek to amplify.

  Martin Burns

  Beautiful, Amplify, Way

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• It was ironic but somehow fitting that the 1905 Revolution should have been started by an organisation dreamed up by the tsarist regime itself. No-one believed more than Father Gapon in the bond between Tsar and people.

  Orlando Figes

  Father, Should Have, People

  Orlando Figes (1997). “A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution”, Viking Pr

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• More than ever before, crisis management, reconstruction and development demand a new level of cooperation between nations, and between nations and international organisations, where military and civilian instruments are applied in a coordinated way.

  Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

  Military, Development, Levels

  Speech at NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Madeira, www.nato.int. May 25, 2007.

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• I am quite surprised and rather disappointed by the loneliness, isolation and indeed demonisation the sadly misunder­stood CO2 is experiencing. Thus, upon leaving the parliament, I am contemplating the foundation of an organisation called 'The Friends of Carbon Dioxide'. Membership will of course be open to all, including the plants whose very existence depends on CO2. I think this organisation's slogan, 'CO2 is not pollution', self-selects. It has both accuracy and melody to commend it.

  Nick Minchin

  Loneliness, Thinking, Self

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• Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organisation disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Impact, People

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• Being promoted to a top position in your organisation, or even being elected to public office, does not suddenly endow you with financial literacy, if you did not acquire and develop it, earlier in your life.

  Strive Masiyiwa

  Office, Doe, Financial

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• Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Islamic, Government, Israel

  "Jeremy Corbyn launches antisemitism report amid controversy" by Harriet Sherwood, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2016.

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• As an organisation [Not for Sale] we use social media on a daily basis as a way to share the impact of how our support is having on individuals and communities. By building awareness, education and updating interested parties on the progress of the projects.

  David Batstone

  Party, Impact, Media

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• Membership of an organisation is good, as long as you can make yourself heard.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Long, Membership, Heard

  "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.

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• The United Nations remains the sole universal international organisation designed to maintain global peace. And in this sense it has no alternative today. It is also apparent that it should adapt to the ever-changing world, which we discuss all the time: how it should evolve and at what rate, which components should undergo qualitative changes. Of course, I will have to or rather should use this international platform to explain Russia's vision of today's international relations, as well as the future of this organisation and the global community.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Community, Vision

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• 60 percent of Syria is controlled either by ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra or other terrorist organisations, organisations that have been recognised as terrorist by the United States, as well as other countries and the UN. It is them and not anyone else who have control over 60 percent of Syrian territory.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Isis, United States

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• No one except for al-Assad's army is fighting against ISIS or other terrorist organisations in Syria, no one else is fighting them on Syrian territory. Minor airstrikes, including those by the United States aircraft, do not resolve the issue in essence; in fact, they do not resolve it at all.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fighting, Army, Isis

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• It is clear that the international community has no other universal organisation of the likes of the United Nations.

  Vladimir Putin

  Community, Likes, United Nations

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• Singapore was the very first South-east Asian nation to join the global coalition against ISIL (ISIS) coalition, and we'll work to sustain our momentum in destroying that terrorist organisation.

  Barack Obama

  Isis, Asian, East

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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