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“Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.”

World Humans Facts Spiritual Community Economic Mankind Theory Development Civilization Healthy Organized Human Society Common Interests Internationalism

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?”

Men Firsts Said States Father Born Church Democracy Century Theory Property Every Man Organized Theft Inventor Workshops Montesquieu

Book:Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers

Source: Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers

“No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind force produces this highly organized world is far more fantastic than the theory that a Super Intelligence devised its ordered evolution.”

World Mind Reason Universe Belief Force Teaching Produce Theory Evolution Blind Critical Accidents Fantastic Organized

Author:Alice Hegan Rice

“... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster that God Himself likes money -- a theory which convinces nobody -- or it can give him an apologetic, halfhearted invitation to go out and get himself crucified.”

Giving Two Can Do Theory Likes Organized Two Things Convince Invitations Uneasy Organized Religion Dominating Apologetic Bluster

Book:The Folks at Home

Source: The Folks at Home

“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”

Facts Beautiful Science Common Theory Ugly Common Sense Organized

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuition.”

World Views Powerful Common Theory Exciting Prejudice Ancient Intuition Common Sense Organized Imposing

Book:Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

Source: Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

“If you look at a lot of traditional societies, they're all organized along what we might call anarchist guidelines, but it's not like the Zapatistas were reading European social theory.”

Ifs Looks Might Reading Social Theory Traditional Organized Anarchist Guidelines Social Theory

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?”

Ifs Should Care Funny Fire Doors Theory Smell Block Organized Cleaning Items Housework Chores Refrigerators Multiplying Clean House House Cleaning

Author:Erma Bombeck