O Quotes
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“Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series
“Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions.”
“Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents”
Source: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic
“Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.”
“Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.”
Source: The Religion of a Literary Man: (Religio Scriptoris)
“Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.”
“Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.”
“Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.”
“Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.”
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel
“Organized displays. Better shopping experience. Higher sales.”
“Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.”
“Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.”
“Organized labor is organized to take control of an asset away from its rightful owners without paying for it. Organized labor is organization of property by those who don't own it. Organized labor, by driving up the costs of production through coercive means, destroys industries. Organized labor is piracy without the boats and eye patches. Why would anybody want to celebrate organized labor?”
“Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth...”
“Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.”
“Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.”
“Organized living has a comprehensive meaning. It is not about perfection; it is about efficiency and quality of life. Time & money can be saved, the physical & mental strain can be avoided, productivity can be increased, and success can be achieved.”
“Organized love is the worst kind of love. Because it all feels and has all the qualities of love until you disagree or step out of the group or circle, then you will understand it had never been love.
Loving without the heart, is hate in disguise.”
“Organized medicine quickly adopted the stance that his alleged "cures" fell into three categories: those who never had cancer in the first place; those who were cured by prior radiation and surgery; and those who died. When Healing Becomes a Crime”
“Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!”
“Organized nonviolent protest and creative positive politics are the two wings of democracy to bring real change and betterment in humanity.”
Source: Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
“Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.”
“Organized people are just too lazy to look for things”
“Organized perception is what art is all about.”
Source: Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...
“Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .”
“Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but the process of grafting must be individual. Every human soul must, through thought, prayer, and study, cultivate his [sic] own religion to suit himself.”
“Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for the benefit of material security in spite of occasional twinges of conscience and moral protests. The result has been that today much of organized religion is materialistically solvent but spiritually bankrupt.”
“Organized religion is a detriment to humanity.”
Source: How to Be a Movie Star
“Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people”
Source: Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!: From the Minnesota Governor's Mansion to the Baja Outback : Reflections and Revisionings
“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.”
Source: DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government
“Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.”
“Organized religion is good for wars, battles, pissin' and moanin' and not much else.”
“Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality, and freedom were really practiced instead of only preached, there would be no need for a special institution(the church) to take care of those principles.”
“Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.”
“Organized religion is primarily man putting words in God's mouth. That's how I basically feel about that. But, I do believe in believing and I admire it. I just don't think it should be exclusive or judgmental.”
“Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when taken literally, but reveals some of the deepest truths of humankind when understood mythically, poetically, and even allegorically-that is when it is read with an active and creative imagination.”
“Organized religion is the planet’s largest circus, where apes commodify divinity to sell tickets.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Organized religion is the planet’s largest circus, where apes commodify divinity to sell tickets – more divide means more fear, means more control, divine distant from human is the holy grail of commerce.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?”
“Organized religion: where men write the rules, women follow them, and the children pay the price.”
Source: Horny: Sex Without Scruples
“Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand.”
Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...
“Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.”
“Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.”
“Organized religions by their very natures are misleading.”
“Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.”
“Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms.”
“Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened. Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally. Literally! I choose not to believe that's the way. And that's what makes America cool, you know?”
“Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.”
Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage
“Organized, yeah. And those who are so sure that their God is the right God that they believe it's ok to kill another person who doesn't believe in their God.”
“Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.”