Organisation Quotes - Page 2

• If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, Home, People

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.71, Soft Skull Press

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• The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest of the nation. In view of the fact that private organisation of production is a function of national concern, the organiser of the enterprise is responsible to the State for the direction given to production.

  Benito Mussolini

  Views, Facts, Spheres

  Benito Mussolini (1935). “Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions”

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• Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Country, Adversity

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• The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Positive, Meaningful, Steps

  "Peace netter". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2002.

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spinning, Wheels, Careful

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Hands, Looks, Mouths

  "Civil engineering" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Throughout the history of el Bulli, there have been many changes in its organisation or philosophy. This is another one of those moments. There will be risk, and freedom, and creativity. But there won't be opening hours, or reservations, or routines.

  Ferran Adria

  Philosophy, Creativity, Risk

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• I'm a big micro manager; I'm a stickler about organisation; everything needs a place, a purpose, and micro managing myself even when I'm in the studio.

  Christina Aguilera

  Needs, Purpose, Bigs

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• The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.

  James Buchan

  Military, Technology, World

  "The last great heresy" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2002.

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• Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers.

  James Buchan

  Country, Jesus, Children

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• In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

  Noam Chomsky

  Information, Gains, Common

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• You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

  Tony Blair

  Media, Creative, Healthy

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• I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather, they exploit forms of fear and insecurity that are there for any population - no political organisation of life could ever fully do away with fear and insecurity; but some work to intensify, accelerate, and make more acute forms of fear, and to provide ideological focus for such intensified fears, at which point critical thinking has a fierce rival. The critical analysis that shows precisely how those forms of fear are promulgated, and for what purpose.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, Thinking, Psychics

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• Like every big organisation these days, the BBC is obsessed with the wellbeing of those who set foot on its premises. Studios must display warning notices if there is real glass on the set, and the other day I was presented with a booklet explaining how to use a door. I am not kidding.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Real, Glasses, Doors

  Jeremy Clarkson (2004). “The world according to Clarkson”

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• The pyjamas have cats on them. I am informed that these cats belong to an organisation called Hello Kitty.

  Martin Millar

  Cat, Hello, Kitties

  Martin Millar (2010). “Lonely Werewolf Girl: Number 1 in series”, p.568, Hachette UK

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• I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

  Toby Young

  Writing, Years, Political

  "Forever Young". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.

  William Beveridge

  Ignorance, Progress, Giants

  "Social Insurance and Allied Services". The "Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge (Part 1, 8), November 1942.

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• I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.

  Annie Lennox

  Beautiful, Gay, Feminism

  "The world has become more sexualised" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. March 05, 2012.

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• I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

  Diane Abbott

  Visiting, Locals

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• The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class. That is why every newly minted constable, regardless of their educational background, has to spend a two-year probationary period as an ordinary plod on the streets. This is because nothing builds character like being abused, spat at and vomited by members of the public.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Educational, Character, Thinking

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• In fact UN is more of a galaxy of organisations and agencies than one machine.

  Kofi Annan

  Agency, Machines, Facts

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. Change is created by focusing our energies on overcoming the latter instead of attacking the former.

  Anthony Venn-Brown

  Party, Ignorance, Gay

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• What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.

  Andrew Forrest

  Running, Government, Needs

  "Interview with Andrew Forrest, Businessman and Philanthropist". "Lateline" with Emma Alberici, www.abc.net.au. October 23, 2013.

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• I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Religious, Believe, Ideas

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• We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no majority, no government, church, corporation, trade, or professional association or trade union. The secret of its freedom is that it is composed of a multitude of organisations in the constitution of the best of which is reproduced that diffusion of power which is characteristic of the whole.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Party, Government, Class

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