#organized

We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime. ↗

— Pauline Marois

#collusion #corruption #crime #feeding #funds

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#general #impulses #organized #our #preservation

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar. ↗

— James Chiles

#dirty #dollar #organized #sharp #side

The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#act #available #been #better #cases

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion. ↗

— Will Smith

#i #necessarily #organized #organized religion #religion

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#conspiracy #organized #politics #productive #unorganized

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others. ↗

— Georg Solti

#against #although #both #both sides #did

I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized. ↗

— Robert Blake

#clean #five #growing #growing up #i

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#believers #metaphor #myth #organized-religion #religion

As Lynn writes: "What angers me is the loss of control. At any moment someone could come to me, be dressed the right way and use the right code, and I no longer have free will. I will do anything that person requests. I hate them for that. Nothing else is as bad as knowi that I am always out of control; knowing that I am still a laboratory experiment, a puppet whose strings are hidden from ever but my handlers, and I don't yet know how to break free. p216

— Lynn Hersha

#control #free-will #government-abuse #manipulation #military