#organ

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#organized-religion #paradox #religion #religion

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. ↗

— George Carlin

#politics #religion #religion

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else... ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#mankind #organized-religion #religion #religion

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of those willing to 'come out,' thereby encouraging others to do so. Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#cats #coming-out #organization #atheist

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ↗

— Henry Adams

#been #hatreds #organization #politics #systematic

In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#cooperate #create #different #different places #environment

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#balance #between #define #kind #needs

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#business #civil #civil society #community #global

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#created #general #however #itself #man

We were innocent once. How could it have gone so bad? ↗

— Kim Harrison

#rachel-morgan #trent #innocence