Quotes About Order

Politicians who use 'getting tough on law and order' as an election slogan are exploiting those who were abused as children, in order to gain power for themselves.

A life's journey is like a musical composition, born into the world from nothing, living for a time in form and structure, dancing spontaneously on the edge of chaos and order, and then finally returning. In this respect Western music tends to be more linear, Eastern music more cyclical.

Here is the rub: Systems that are constructed for order cannot provide satisfaction in domains that require a unique and personal human solution. They are unable to provide the satisfaction that they promise because of their very nature. This is not a critique of any individual's leadership or method of operation. It is that systems have a limit; by their nature, they cannot provide prosperity or peace of mind or a life of satisfaction.

He understands, also, that this offer represents a fundamentally wrong order to the universe. You should bow down and worship Jeoffry! "Right," the devil says. "I thought as much.

It's always comforting to see the return of normalcy, and that the system has not completely broken down.

Rashaquin reproduction. Their entire social order is bult to keep adults well separated, with lots of private space, so they don't accidentally each one another.

Rashaquin reproduction. Their entire social order is bult to keep adults well separated, with lots of private space, so they don't accidentally eat one another.

tidying with what a couple of the other pianists had called her obsessive-compulsive neatness. Well, could she help it if she liked the sheet music alphabetized? And then put in numerical order according to the year it was written?

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

That's why we tell the stories. To ease the anxiety of being soft-skinned mortals. To inspire the soul to fathom eternity. To give order to what feels out of control. To guide, to blame, to warn, to shame. To make some kind of sense out of why people do what they do, why things happen the way they happen, and how we might all meet each other and daily life with less turmoil and more stability. That's why we cling to the old stories.

But a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently. You will try every day of your life. Order is a certain clumsy grammar, a mnemonic device. Order just means: try to use verbs. Consider the tense. The poetry will follow.

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.

It was Lenin, not Stalin, who turned his utopian dream of a new Communist global order into a living nightmare.

God's supreme reason dictates the structure of both the supernatural and the natural order, since both reflect His eternal purpose. Truths about the first are revealed to us in the form of divine law, which means Scripture. Truths about the second are revealed to us through our senses, by means of the laws of nature.

In the absence of any force to maintain law and order, power belonged to whoever was strong enough to seize it.

So the basis of Aristotle's secure and stable order is not the Philosopher Ruler, but the good citizen who participates actively in the political, social, and economic life of his community.

his real point was not that a market-based order was perfect or even perfectible. Rather, it was more beneficial, and ultimately more rational, than ones put together by politicians or rulers, who are themselves creatures of their own passions and whims.

Marcuse's appeal to an emergency situation bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the justifications for Hitler's emergency decrees in 1933. The resemblance is no coincidence. Like his cultural pessimist counterparts on the German revolution on the Right, Marcuse impatiently awaited the emergence of a new cultural order out of the rubble of the old liberal capitalist West.

The man most active in bringing together these twin forces for divine order and proportion was Abbot Suger, head of the famous abbey of Saint Denis near Paris.

Aristotle insisted, the source of that justice is always the same: observation of the underlying order of nature.

Hobbes puts the blame squarely on Aristotle, who he said led men to connect liberty with democracy and goaded them into "loving tumults" and disorder, believing those were the way to secure liberty when they did just the opposite. Instead, Hobbes argued, nothing was safe unless we obey the sovereign;