Organised Quotes - Page 5

• I think we need to think of lots of ways to communicate. And we tried some at 350. We organised what they called the largest art project in the planet's history. We do a lot with art and music and things.

  Bill McKibben

  Art, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• The anti-imperialist, forces in the country [Zimbabwe] here, I think are not that strong. The capitalist forces, the reactionary forces are far more formidable, far better organised. But we would have wanted to hear the voice of the anti-imperialist forces, those who espouse the cause of freedom, the cause of independence, everywhere.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• If scientists and scholars were to become "collectively self-organised and consciously activist" today, they would probably devote themselves to service to state and private power. Those who have different goals should (and do) become organized and activist.

  Noam Chomsky

  Self, Goal, Different

  Source: libcom.org

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• One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

  Kingsley Amis

  Mean, Forgiving, Benefits

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• I wasn't the kind of kid who would get A's without even trying. I had to work to get good grades, but I was very organised about it because I always wanted to do well at everything I did. I'm very competitive.

  Jessica Ennis

  Kids, Trying, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

  Elton John

  Beautiful, Jesus, Book

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2006.

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• I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

  Hilary Mantel

  Writing, Linear, Novel

  "Hilary Mantel: 'If I'm suffering, I can make that pay'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2012.

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• I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.

  Nancy Reagan

  Campaigns, Very Good, Wells

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• I avoid any kind of organised trips as that's one of my bugbears.

  Johnny Vegas

  Kind

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• It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

  A. N. Wilson

  Children, Remarkable, Dictatorship

  "Once upon a life" by A. N. Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011.

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• Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

  Elton John

  Gay, Views, People

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• I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in cushioning your insecurities with a system of belief that tells you 'Don't worry. This may be your life but you're not in control. There is something or someone looking out for you -- it's already organised.' It's all chance and choice, which is far more frightening.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Believe, Fate, Worry

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• It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Dream, Spring, Heart

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2007). “Letters from Scandinavia”, p.55, Lulu.com

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• To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Games, Feeling Alone

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.43, Collector's Library

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• The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

  Noam Chomsky

  Want, Life Is, Social

  "Work, Learning And Freedom". Interview with Michael Kasenbacher, www.newleftproject.org. December 24, 2012.

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• I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Thinking, Want, Universe

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• Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else.

  Steven Morrissey

  Music, Prostitution

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• The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many persons. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians.

  Charles Darwin

  Regret, Science, Men

  Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.525, OUP Oxford

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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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• I'm organised in some ways, but not in others.

  Dylan Moran

  Way

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