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Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying. -- L. Ron Hubbard
My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organised chaos. -- David Wenham
Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit. -- Martin Freeman
Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate. -- Elton John
Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, however. It is the wealthy inhabitants who run risks at the hand of the mafia, or lawless Sicilian. -- Alec-Tweedie
I'm organised in some ways, but not in others. -- Dylan Moran
I think I'm slightly impulsive, sometimes organised and always in search of a bargain! -- Lisa Snowdon
My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless. -- Meg Rosoff
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics. -- A. N. Wilson
I'm so organised. I never screw up. I've done it maybe twice before. I check my calendar seven times a day. -- Anna Paquin
London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool. -- Carine Roitfeld
Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp. -- Imre Kertesz
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society. -- Alexis Korner
There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains. -- Stephen Hawking
The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes. -- James Randi
There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards. -- Geoff Mulgan
I love fashion; I love being able to have fun with it, but I think I need to get a little bit more organised before I ever become a true fashionista. -- Anne Hathaway
I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing. -- Nana Mouskouri
After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries - not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists. -- Noam Chomsky
The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women. -- Millicent Fawcett
One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them. -- Kingsley Amis
I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. It's just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself. -- Mindy McCready
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance. -- Richard Dawkins
I wasn't the kind of kid who would get A's without even trying. I had to work to get good grades, but I was very organised about it because I always wanted to do well at everything I did. I'm very competitive. -- Jessica Ennis
I've been a single parent for a long time. It reminds me of being a waitress. As you walk back to the kitchen, requests come at you from all sides. You're doing the job of two - you have to be highly organised. -- Cherie Lunghi
I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are. -- Susan Faludi
Truly, I am a woman of the last minute. When I was pregnant, I organised three different hospitals because I couldn't decide where I wanted to have my baby: London, Rome or Paris. In the end, I decided to go to Rome, arrived on the Monday and gave birth on the Saturday. -- Monica Bellucci
I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life. -- Sebastian Coe
I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate. -- Elton John
When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral... I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and I've done so ever since. -- Stuart Rose
Im a pretty organised traveller. -- Penny Lancaster
I resent all organised religions. -- Richard Eyre
I just have to be very, very organised. -- Phoebe Philo
Chinese society is organised around the family unit. -- Guo Guangchang
Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else. -- Steven Morrissey
The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture. -- Eduardo Galeano
But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything. -- Link Wray
Everyone in Sweden has great hair and teeth and is clean-cut and organised. -- Neneh Cherry
I avoid any kind of organised trips as that's one of my bugbears. -- Johnny Vegas
I like organised things. I don't like the corruption and slowness of Greece. -- Stelios Haji-Ioannou
I think I'm slightly impulsive, sometimes organised and always in search of a bargain! -- Lisa Snowdon
One thing about Germany - they'll be organised, they'll be big and they'll be strong. -- Ally McCoist
I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world. -- Paulo Coelho
I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
I'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women. -- Britt Ekland
No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend. -- Carol Vorderman
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel. -- Hilary Mantel
The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery -- Charles Nqakula
I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me. -- Alan Cumming
We have a storage close by where I live, that's very organised. My guitar tech, Matty organised it all, labeled everything. -- John Petrucci
I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions. -- William T. Vollmann
I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed. -- Nancy Reagan
I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion? -- Catherine Webb
We know that the organised workers of the country are our friends. As for the rest, they don't matter a tinker's cuss. -- Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell
The globe of this earth "¦ [is] "¦ not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power. -- James Hutton
There's no real organised body, ... so through the internet people have spread their videos, spread photos, and spread word of a new urban movement. -- Chris Hayes
One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral. -- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels? -- James Callaghan
An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery. -- Karl Marx
On several occasions, we are informed that the professional ideal 'took steps', 'organised assaults', and 'selected social problems'. But this is anthropomorphic metaphor implausibly masquerading as historical explanation. -- David Cannadine
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber. -- Sri Aurobindo
One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion. -- Trent Reznor
I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here. -- Charles Stross
But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be organised to mathematical principles. -- Lee Smolin
Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised. -- Anthony Giddens
I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children. -- John Nelson Darby
Rather than converting people from one organised religion to another organised religion, we should try to convert people from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation and from cruelty to compassion. -- S. N. Goenka
I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it. -- Elie Wiesel
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I wouldn't say I was organised at all. I just have to prioritise. Is it more important for them to be organised, or to have their dinner, do you know what I mean? -- Jo Brand
I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country. -- Tom Paulin
The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined. -- Noam Chomsky
My interest in gospel music and liturgical art and Biblically-inspired literature has nothing to do with organised religion and everything to do with human beings trying to figure out their place on this planet. -- Moby

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