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Churches are becoming political organisations. Robert Ingersoll
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organisation of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men. Clarence Darrow
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. Vince Lombardi
A group experience takes place on a lower level of consciousness than the experience of an individual. This is due to the fact that, when many people gather together to share one common emotion, the total psyche emerging from the group is below the level of the individual psyche. If it is a very large group, the collective psyche will be more like the psyche of an animal, which is the reason why the ethical attitude of large organizations is always doubtful. The psychology of a large crowd inevitably sinks to the level of mob psychology. If, therefore, I have a so-called collective experience as a member of a group, it takes place on a lower level of consciousness than if I had the experience by myself alone. C G Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Our organisation is a non-violent organisation. We fight to protect. We’re not the enemy. Jeff Ford, Blackstone/Keystone Rangers
As long as he lives he belongs to the organisation. Odd Man Out 1947 starring James Mason & Robert Newton & Cyril Cusack & William Hartnell & Kathleen Ryan & F J McCormick & Fay Compton & Denis O’Dea et al, director Carol Reed
Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something. Wendell Phillips
What does a capitalist do? ... What does he make besides money? ... The workers do all the work, don’t they? Well what if they got organised? Reds 1981 starring Warren Beatty & Diane Keaton & Jack Nicholson & Gene Hackman & Edward Herrmann & Jerzy Kosinski & Paul Sorvino & Maureen Stapleton & Nicolas Coster & William Daniels & E Emmet Walsh & Ian Wolfe & Bessie Love et al, director Warren Beatty, Reed
An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. Jack Welch
Most organisations have a serial bully. It never ceases to amaze me how one person’s divisive dysfunctional behaviour can permeate the entire organisation like a cancer. Tim Field
This book is about the organization man ... I can think of no other way to describe the people I am talking about. They are not the workers, nor are they the white-collar people in the usual, clerk sense of the word. These people only work for the Organization. The ones I am talking about belong to it as well. William H Whyte, The Organization Man, 1956
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions. Margaret Wheatley
There is a great organization at work. And organization which not only employs corrupt warders, stupid Inspectors, and Examining Magistrates of whom the best that can be said is that they recognize their own limitations, but also has at its disposal a judicial hierarchy of high, indeed of the highest rank, with an indispensable and numerous retinue of servants, clerks, police, and other assistants, perhaps even hangmen, I do not shrink from the word. And the significance of this great organization, gentlemen? It consists in this, that innocent persons are accused of guilt, and senseless proceedings are put in motion against them, mostly without effect, it is true, as in my own case. Franz Kafka, The Trial pp39-40
Jane, I work for a new organisation seeking young women like yourself to train on a career in the civil service. We’re what you might call progressive. Predestination 2014 starring Ethan Hawke & Sarah Snook & Monique Heath & Olivia Sprague & Noah Taylor & Madeleine West & Christopher Kirby & Freya Stafford & Jim Knobeloch & Christopher Stollery & Tyler Coppin & Rob Jenkins et al, directors Michael & Peter Spierig, recruiter
It’s re-shaping wrong-doings … Finding people who are special … For people with exceptional abilities … You see the work we do is complicated. ibid.
For some time I’d been thinking of leaving the organization. Hearing that man scream – suddenly I couldn’t take it any more. Double X: The Name of the Game 1992 starring Bernard Hill & Norman Wisdom & Leon Herbert & Vladek Sheybal & Derren Nesbitt & Chloe Annett & Simon Ward & Gemma Craven et al, director Shani S Grewal