Organized Quotes - Page 25

• Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.

  Vinod Khosla

  Communication, Years, Sea

  "How the Web Was Won". www.vanityfair.com. July 2008.

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• The key to managing fear and life's tasks is to take the time daily to get organized.

  Jude Bijou

  Keys, Tasks

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• The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

  Walter Lippmann

  Art, Patriotic, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way.

  William James

  War, Believe, Discipline

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.312, Harvard University Press

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• Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief source and cause of torment.

  Cynthia Ozick

  War, Causes, Consciousness

  Cynthia Ozick (2017). “Art and Ardor”, p.258, Atlantic Books

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• Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.

  Erich Fromm

  Loving Nature, Society, Way

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.134, Open Road Media

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• We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.

  Robert Breault

  Purpose, Action, Defeat

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• There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Leader, Church, Scripture

  "Taking The Reins Of Billy Graham's Legacy". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 10, 2011.

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• People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Years, People, Society

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, War, Believe

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.249, Princeton University Press

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• Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

  Lillian Hellman

  People, Rebel, Unions

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• We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and centrally placed of our adversaries. We assume that they must somehow relish what they do.

  Lewis Thomas

  Sleep, Thinking, Disease

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.

  Murray Kempton

  Names, Political, Enemy

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down.

  Leon Panetta

  Mean, Views, Levels

  "Defense Secretary Leon Panetta". "This Week" with Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. May 27, 2012.

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• Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Letting Go, Jobs, Sacrifice

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• The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good.

  John Ralston Saul

  Powerful, Government, Individuality

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

  Anne McCaffrey

  War, Writing, Needs

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• [To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.

  John D. MacDonald

  Sunset, Religion, Looks

  John D MacDonald (2013). “Travis McGee: Books 4-6: Introduction by Lee Child”, p.251, Random House

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• There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass media, the academy and organized religion, our good words tend to float away even as they leave our lips, ascending to an altitude where they neither reflect nor connect with the human condition. We long for words like love, truth, and justice to become flesh and dwell among us. But in our violent world, it's risky business to wrap our frail flesh around words like those, and we don't like the odds.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Odds, Media, Like Love

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• The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look out of the window, then truth for me is the way nature shows itself in its various tones, colours and proportions. That's a truth and has its own correctness. This little slice of nature, and in fact any given piece of nature, represents to me an ongoing challenge, and is a model for my paintings.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Challenges, Ongoing

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• The British are proud of their ability to create a muddle and then muddle through all difficulties. I must shake the British pride: muddle is not an exclusively British institution. Read descriptions, for instance, of the over-organized, wonderfully systematic and "thorough" German war machine during the last war.

  George Mikes

  Funny, War, Humorous

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• I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.

  Dean Cain

  Christian, Buddhist, Catholic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance.

  Tim Cahill

  Adventure, Political, Becoming

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• Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Successful, Men

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• The owners of labor, on the other hand, are being taught, by the most powerful and well-publicized examples, that the highest rewards are not for production, but for the employment of organized power to take over a share of what others produce.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Powerful, Hands

  Louis O. Kelso, Mortimer Jerome Adler (1975). “The New Capitalists: A Proposal to Free Economic Growth from the Slavery of Savings”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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