Quotes About Order

What . . . do I have to do exactly?" "If anyone annoys me, you squash him," Hal told him and Ingvar nodded happily.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

The natural effect of processes going on in the Universe is to move from a state of order to a state of disorder, unless there is an input of energy from outside

The ancient world assigned a value to divinely approved order similar to the value we assign to human rights.

Though the gods often had their own individual purposes, as a group they were unanimous in their general expectations of people: "Their servants were expected to be quiet, to keep the land in good order and to attend to the needs of their creators."[3] The gods had needs, the gods had jobs, and the gods had whims—these were all addressed in the practice of religion at the state level.

Where Johnny chose to see cause and effect, Jack saw the hand of God, and of the devil himself. That wasn't hyperbole or false belief; he knew it like he knew his bones: that the world ran shadowed and deep, that evil was real and had a face. Because of that, Jack sought order, solidity, control.

Set the cart before the horse.

The Jedi Order was more than an unpaid police force, more than just an exercise club that was into metaphysics. It was a way of life, based on the Jedi Code—and a lot of rules for living that weren't in the Code, that had been tacked on later. One was that Jedi avoided becoming involved in romantic relationships. Once on the run, Kanan Jarrus had found that rule pretty easy to forget about.

enough for the Republic—but the Empire is order from chaos. What we do here—and in thousands of systems just like this one—brings us closer to our ultimate goal." Sloane thought for a moment. "Perfection?" "Whatever the Emperor wants.

era un hombre rutinario y ordenado. Su minuciosidad y formalidad rozaban sin duda la obsesión; creía que imponer tanta disciplina a su vida cotidiana era la única forma segura de intentar interpretar el desconcierto y el caos que sus pacientes le acercaban a diario.

To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.

They drum that into you: discipline trumps courage. In a fight, the people who win are the ones who do what they're told. It's not like it is in films. Don't be brave, just do what you're told.

Troy wrapped his hand around the gun and asked himself why God had so ordered the world as to make elder brothers into know-alls.

Troy wrapped his hand around the gun and asked himself why God had so ordered the world as

Sect. 4. TO understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.

the law of the land, which is not to be violated.

Seek to make thy course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

his principles could not be made to agree with that constitution and order which God had settled in the world

Though it be ever so plain, that there ought to be government in the world

To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature; without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.

where there is no law, there is no freedom;

but freedom is not, as we are told, " a liberty for every man to do what he lists:" (for who could be free, when every other man's humour might domineer over him ?) but a liberty to dispose and order as he lists his person, actions, possessions, and his whole property, within the allowance of those laws under which he is, and therein not to be subject to the arbitrary will of another, but freely follow his own.

positive laws of an established government.

Conscientious individuals are ruled by their heads. Emotions, urges, whims, or hungers do not often get the best of them.