Organized Quotes - Page 32

• Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Health, Machines, Goes On

  War and Peace bk. 10, ch. 29 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude

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• Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

  John Updike

  Government, Peculiar, Madness

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 24, 2014

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• Politeness is organized indifference.

  Paul Valery

  Indifference, Politeness

  "Tel Quel". Book by Paul Valery, 1943.

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• Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

  Jesse Ventura

  Fear, Numbers, People

  Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell (2013). “DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government”, p.209, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Forever, Earth

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• Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Done, Humans, Divides

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• My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.

  Vera Wang

  Design, Dresses, Gowns

  "My List: Vera Wang in 24 Hours" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 16, 2012.

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• I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

  E. O. Wilson

  Way, Becoming, Honest

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• What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Law, Reign, Opinion

  Woodrow Wilson (1945). “Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today”

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• The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Courage, Character, Men

  Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Letter 19 (1796)

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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 be only organized dust.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Dust, Joy, Sorrow

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2005). “Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark”, p.76, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

  Ron Wyden

  Senior, Years, Income

  "Preserving the Medicare Guarantee: Why I’ve Been Working with Paul Ryan" by Sen. Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

  Neil Young

  Nature, Believe, Realizing

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• In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.

  Clara Zetkin

  Attitude, Important, Pay

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• In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine alternative to Google-style browsing, a more coherently organized selection of links, and a more advertiser-friendly environment through which to sell space and links.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Space, Google, Style

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• There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Writing, Angel

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Aug 20, 2014

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• I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose and for one blessed moment, one blessed tiny instant, the songs of Heaven resounded down the tunnel as if its curves were not made of wind but of something solid that could echo these ethereal songs, and their organized rhythm, their heartbreaking beauty piercing the catastrophic suffering of this place-Lestat

  Anne Rice

  Song, Blessed, Tunnels

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• Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

  Terry Pratchett

  Order, Chaos, Defeat

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• Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.

  Jon Stewart

  Humorous, Talking, Snakes

  "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996 - ....

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• The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the central pulse of himself, the dreamer whose puns probe ancient fetid shafts and tunnels of truth all act in the same special relevance to the word, or whatever it is the word is there, buffering, to protect us from. The act of metaphor than was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe or outside, lost.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Lying, Tunnels, Light

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• I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

  Neil Gaiman

  Kings, Cat, Owning A Pet

  "A Dream of a Thousand Cats". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, The Sandman series, issue #18, 1990.

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• Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.

  Frank Herbert

  Crush, Individuality, Balance

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.54, Penguin

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• The dead are way more organized than the living.

  China Mieville

  Way

  "Un Lun Dun". Book by China Mievill, January, 2007.

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• By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Political, Needs, Way

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.5, Routledge

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• They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.

  J. K. Rowling

  Kids, Fighting, Halls

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