Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief. — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Gradually, football has seen its appeal slip at the most basic levels. Pediatricians are advising parents not to let young children play… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
The department of home economics was organized to train a woman in efficiency and to develop her outlook to life. Such a… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The next phase and this is part of what I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that… — John J. Raskob Copy Share Image
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
You've just got to get people organized and tell them the truth. There aren't any magic tricks to it. You know, sometimes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I suppose that the first organized effort that might be considered something of civil rights was the Young Negroes' Cooperative League. Now,… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous. — Elizabeth Hurley Copy Share Image
The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Dr. King organized the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to shut down Washington, D.C. and force legislators to tackle poverty. His efforts… — John Hope Bryant Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an… — Robert Brady Copy Share Image
The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
