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Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
anthony de mello— Thought
The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.
john quincy adams— "Society and Civilization" in the American Review (July 1845).
Less than three months after Japanese capitulation... he discarded all the democratic concepts expressed by his predecessors wartime undertakings... He ditched the Roosevelt thesis and put in first place his declared determination to use the all the power of the government to enable United States imperialism to dominate the post-war world and organize it in its own image.
tim buck— Referring to United States President Harry Truman Tim Buck A Conscience for Canada
The purpose of this book is to discuss and present evidence for the general thesis that the flow of energy through a system acts to organize that system.
— Energy Flow in Biology: Biological Organization as a Problem in Thermal Physics (1968), p. 2.
— Italics are in the original. Later quoted on the inside front cover of The Last Whole Earth Catalog.
Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers.
benjamin rush— This quote is often cited with regards to Rush, and can rarely be found attributed to his autobiography, but does not exist in that book [4][5]. The quote contains words and phrasing that seem anachronistic to late 18th century America.
[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or their modernist equivalents, are actually forms of militant irrationality.
roger scruton— "Why I became a conservative," The New Criterion (February 2003).
We have been determined . . . to so organize the peace-loving nations that they may through unity of desire, unity of will, and unity of strength be in position to assure that no other would-be aggressor or conqueror shall even get started. That is why from the very beginning of the war , and paralleling our military plans, we have begun to lay the foundations for the general organization for the maintenance of peace and security .
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, declared in 1944 the president of the United States. Quoted in the article Peace and Security—The Hope, in The Watchtower, October 1, 1985.
General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly generalized constructions of pure mathematics and the specific theories of the specialized disciplines. Mathematics attempts to organize highly general relationships into a coherent system, a system however which does not have any necessary connections with the "real" world around us. It studies all thinkable relationships abstracted from any concrete situation or body of empirical knowledge.
kenneth boulding— "General systems theory - the skeleton of science" in: Management Science, Vol. 2, No. 3. (April 1956) p. 197: Opening sentences.
Knowledge exists in minds, not in books. Before what has been found can be used by practitioners, someone must organize it, integrate it, extract the message
kenneth boulding— Attributed to Boulding (1976) in John T. Partington, Terry Orlick, John H. Salmela (1982) Sport in perspective. p.94
Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity is also an attempt to organize the people, requiring witness to the fact that the struggle for liberation is a common task.
paulo freire— Pedagogia do oprimido [Translation: Pedagogy of the Oppressed] (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 4, on organization.
I thought I could organize freedom How Scandinavian of me
björk guðmundsdóttir— "Hunter" (Homogenic; 1997)
The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do so effectively only if he is not concerned with what is now politically possible but consistently defends the "general principles which are always the same." In this sense I doubt whether there can be such a thing as a conservative political philosophy. Conservatism may often be a useful practical maxim, but it does not give us any guiding principles which can influence long-range developments.
friedrich hayek— "general principles which are always the same" is a quote of Adam Smith in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.
aldo leopold— p. 200 ("Wilderness")
C'mon everybody, yeah, this is your life I'm talking about a revolution we gotta organize We don't need no segregation, we don't need no race New age revelation, I think we got a case. I'm OK as long as u are here with me Sexuality is all we ever need.
prince— Sexuality
You Olympians, however, know you didn't get here solely on your own power. For most of you, loving parents, sisters or brothers, encouraged your hopes, coaches guided, communities built venues in order to organize competitions. All Olympians stand on the shoulders of those who lifted them.
mitt romney— Speech at the Opening Ceremonies at the 2002 Winter Olympics, quoted in Montanaro, Domenico (July 23, 2012). "Romney to Olympians: 'You didn't get here solely on your own'". NBC News. Retrieved on 2012-07-24.
I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind.
neal stephenson— Neal Stephenson coins the term "text literacy" during interview for the article "Pushing the Edge With 'Diamond Age' Nano-Machines," Associated Press, May 10, 1995
For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.
fernand braudel— Fernand Braudel, A History of Civilizations , Penguin, 1995, p.54
For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.
fernand braudel— Fernand Braudel, A History of Civilizations , Penguin, 1995, p.54
We have been determined .:;.:;. to so organize the peace-loving nations that they may through unity of desire, unity of will, and unity of strength be in position to assure that no other would-be aggressor or conqueror shall even get started. That is why from the very beginning of the war , and paralleling our military plans, we have begun to lay the foundations for the general organization for the maintenance of peace and security .
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, declared in 1944 the president of the United States. Quoted in the article Peace and Security—The Hope, in The Watchtower, October 1, 1985.
Don't waste any time mourning organize!
— Joe Hill, letter to William D. Haywood (November 18, 1915); reported in Philip S. Foner, The Letters of Joe Hill (1965), p. 84. Written while Hill was awaiting execution for a murder for which it was widely believed the evidence had been fabricated.
MIS plans compete with many other potential business investments and business problems for the attention of senior management. Consequently, a strategic planning methodology should not only produce a plan linked to business planning but also should create a persuasive case for its support. This article examines the state of the art in strategic planning in terms of enterprisewide information management (EwIM), which is a set of concepts and tools that enable MIS managers to plan, organize, implement, and control information resources to meet current and future strategic goals.
— Marilyn M. Parker & Robert J. Benson (1989) "Enterprisewide Information Management: State-of-the-Art Strategic Planning." Journal of Information Systems Management Vol 6 (3). p. 14–23. Abstract
All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs and Scout troops. Their children tend to be happy, confident and socially engaged.”
— Quinn Cummings, in The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling, p.21
Through the centuries, the Gita has remained a relevant text, inspiring militant revolutionaries, non-violent truth-seekers and renouncers of the world. It has enlightened German philosophers such as Schopenhauer and Heidegger ; it has inspired Victorian poets such as Sir Edwin Arnold; and it has grounded post-Independence philosophers such as Sarvapelli Radhakrishnan. It has become a literary 'site' which decision-makers turn to to understand their dilemmas, whether they be Indian women and men leading Gandhi 's satyagraha , twenty-first-century South Asian-American officers deciding to go to war in the Gulf, or London housewives with their children deciding how to organize their day.
— Laurie L. Patton, "The Bhagavad Gita", Penguin Classics, 2008, Introduction.
Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.
paulo freire— Pedagogia do oprimido [Translation: Pedagogy of the Oppressed] (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 4, on organization.
Do you know what I admire most in the world? The inability of force to organize anything. There are only two powers in this world, the sword and the spirit ... in the long run the sword is always beaten by the spirit.
— As quoted in "French Literature" by William Koren, in Modern Language Notes, Vol. XX, No. 3, (March 1905), p.97
Anarchy means an absence of law. Sociologically it is the modern theory which proposes to do away with all existing forms of government and to organize a society which will exercise all its functions without any controlling or directive authority.
— The Catholic Encyclopedia (1907)
?Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
brian eno— Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices (1995), p. 272, ISBN 0571179959
Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together.
elizabeth hardwick— "Katherine Anne Porter" (p. 299)
To manage is to forecast and plan, to organize, co-ordinate and to control.
— Henri Fayol (1916) cited in: Gerald A. Cole (2003) Management theory and practice. p.6
