Organisation Quotes - Page 4

• I think it's absolutely amazing and how the Remain side have the cheek to come and tell us that we improve our security by staying in this organisation I do not understand.

  Boris Johnson

  Thinking, Sides, Staying

  "EU debate: Boris Johnson says Brexit will be 'Britain's independence day' as Ruth Davidson attacks 'lies' of Leave campaign in front of 6,000-strong Wembley audience". BBC One's debate at Wembley Arena, London, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 21, 2016.

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• There was a deliberate decision after the failure of the League of Nations to make the next attempt to establish a global political actor sensitive to geopolitical realities. The underlying idea was to provide major states, defined in 1945 by reference to the winners in the Second World War (now an anachronism), with assurance that they could take part in the UN without jeopardising their national interests. In this regard, the UN has succeeded, as none of the big countries has withdrawn, and the Organisation has managed to achieve virtually universal membership of all sovereign states.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, War, Reality

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Business, Creativity, Imagination

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• The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of teaching people being ashamed of their sexuality.

  Hozier

  Teaching, People, Church

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• Like any large organisation, public or private, the UN is a complex machine.

  Kofi Annan

  Machines, Complexes

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• Their [BBC] idea of bipartisanship is to try not to offend the Conservative party, try not to offend the Labour party.There is no analysis of anything beyond that, and these two parties are exactly identical, following the same Neoliberal policies for thirty years. And it's no criticism outside of that, it's just that there's basically sectarian pandering to these two individual parties, these two individual organisations. They still make a lot of great programmes and do a lot of great things, but there's not much political analysis happening broader to that.

  Irvine Welsh

  Party, Years, Ideas

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It's not enough to vent about what you don't like on social media. I would ask everyone who can, men included, to get involved in an organisation actively working for gender equality.

  Catherine Mayer

  Men, Media, Enough

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• We have more than enough programs, organisations, parties, and strategies in the world for the alleviation of suffering and injustice.

  Sulak Sivaraksa

  Party, Justice, Suffering

  Sulak Sivaraksa (1992). “Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society”

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• ... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Nature, Writing, Butterfly

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• The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from the most general to the most special. Roughly, we say that there is a gradual 'adding on' of the more and more special, a continual adding on of new organisations. But this 'adding on' is at the same time a 'keeping down'. The higher nervous arrangements evolved out of the lower keep down those lower, just as a government evolved out of a nation controls as well as directs that nation.

  John Hughlings Jackson

  Science, Government, Special

  John Hughlings Jackson (1931). “Selected Writings of John Hughlings Jackson: Evaluation and dissolution of the nervous system. Speech. Various papers, addresses and lectures”

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• It is because of these irrelevant people, who held no position, they happened to join an organisation, and because of these irrelevant people being demonised by liberal media, I've had to live years, frankly, of being frightened of walking out into the street all because the media picked out these people. And because of these people, attempted to demonise me and give me a bad name.

  Nigel Farage

  Media, Years, Names

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• Advertising and the free society are closely connected. Advertising helps to make a free society remain so by increasing competition, and by helping to maintain the freedom of the mass media themselves. The free society is one where advertising and advertising agencies are likely to be in considerable demand, though it is true that even in a totally centralist society there would still be a need for organisations and people to have access to mass communication media.

  John Treasure

  Business, Communication, Agency

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• People talk about the businesses of the future needing to be more agile and more responsive if they are to be successful. But this requires a deep change in the way organisations work.

  Andrew Curry

  Business, Successful, People

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• It is tempting to call for better leadership, but we probably expect too much from the leaders of the nations. Those nations are too big, the connections not strong enough, the commitment to the future not long enough. It is better to look smaller, to our now-smaller organisations, to local communities and cities, to families and clusters of friends, to small networks of portfolio people with time to give to something bigger than themselves. We have to fashion our own directions in our own places.

  Charles Handy

  Inspirational, Fashion, Strong

  Charles Handy (1995). “The Age of Paradox”, Harvard Business Press

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• Most organisations say they want creativity, but really they do not.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Business, Creativity, Want

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• Customers must trust an organisation and its people.

  Tom Farmer

  Business, People, Customers

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• Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Lying, Self, Roots

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• The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.

  Karl Jaspers

  Order, Community, Soul

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• There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.

  Annie Lennox

  Strong, Voice, People

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• I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Simple, Numbers, People

  "Warning sounded on web's future" by Pallab Ghosh, news.bbc.co.uk. September 15, 2008.

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• I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from.

  Robert Winston

  Country, Korea, People

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• Corporations that are turning over these huge profits can own everything: the media, the universities, the mines, the weapons industry, insurance hospitals, drug companies, non-governmental organisations. They can buy judges, journalists, politicians, publishing houses, television stations, bookshops and even activists. This kind of monopoly, this cross-ownership of businesses, has to stop.

  Arundhati Roy

  Media, Publishing House, Judging

  "Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.

  Carly Fiorina

  Matter, Be Prepared, Ifs

  "A very bad business" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.

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• A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence.

  Jean Vanier

  Kindness, Heart, Competition

  Jean Vanier (2008). “Man and Woman, God Made Them”, p.189, Paulist Press

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• In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on controlling spending and shutting down programmes that haven't worked?

  David Cameron

  Race, Numbers, Focus

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