“It's not uncommon for revolutions to stem from a radicalized group just outside the circle of power. That's what the French Revolution was all about; that's what the American Revolution was. The question is: Will all those groups, because of the nature of partisan polarization and ideological polarization, just fight each other? Or is there capacity to organize?” FightingGroupsRevolutionCapacityCirclesStemOrganizeIdeologicalPartisansAmerican RevolutionUncommonFrench RevolutionPolarization Author:Chris Hayes
“The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.” IndividualSocialGroupsIntentionPrivilegePortionsOrganizePretension Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose.” PurposeForceLeadershipAbilityCommonQualityLeaderGroupsTeamEnterpriseOrganizeCommon PurposeLeadership Qualities Author:Mary Parker Follett
“Science began to be powerful when it began to be cumulative, when observers began to preserve detailed records, to organize cooperating groups in order to pool and criticize their experiences.” OrderPowerfulRecordsGroupsOrganizationPreservesCriticizePoolOrganizeObserversCumulativeCooperating Author:William Wickenden
“When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.” PeopleKindI CanDoneKidsTogetherPlayerGroupsTeamTerribleBaseballNeighborhoodHockeyOrganizeThings DoneSponsorsBaseball TeamHockey Team Author:Jerry Bruckheimer
“Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could not establish a universal law because he had not observed every falling apple, much less proved the law of gravity - there might, after all, be an apple that levitates! Why should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry?” ShouldYearsDoeMightLawFallSimpleStruggleImagineGroupsProveUniversalBillionsReactionsApplesChemistryProfessorsGravityStableOrganizeCarbonOxygenNewtonCompoundsHydrogenUniversal LawsNitrogen Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the falsified democracy of bourgeois states). There remains the anarchism which acts by means of persuasion, by the creation of small groups and networks, denouncing falsehood and oppression, aiming at a true overturning of authorities of all kinds as people at the bottom speak and organize themselves.” PeopleIfsKindMeanStatesSpeakMoralDemocracyGroupsCreationAuthorityRemainsDemocraticBottomViolentAll KindsOppressionCapitalistFalsehoodOrganizePersuasionHostileAnarchismBourgeoisSmall GroupsPacifist Author:Jacques Ellul
“It's interesting, once I have convinced people that, yes, I have a sister with a mental disability, the retard jokes really dry up, so I'm not sure how much retard humor is really going on out there, but I imagine there's a lot because it's a pretty safe group to make fun of. It's not like the Retards of America are gonna rise up and organize a protest. They're not gonna write letters. They only just recently got the Supreme Court to stop executing them.” PeopleWritingAmericaFunInterestingImagineGroupsSafeJokesLettersCourtConvincedSupremeNot SureDryProtestDisabilityOrganizeSupreme CourtRetardExecutingDry Up Author:Bonnie McFarlane