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Quotes About Order

You know those Navy SEALs, they weren't Democrats and Republicans. They were just doing what was best for America. Wouldn't that be a great country if all of you Americans were just like that? You followed orders, you marched in step and you followed my agenda.
~ Jonah Goldberg
The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.
~ Franz von Papen
An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.
~ Ami Ayalon
The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.
~ Godfrey Reggio
But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Salespeople are the most important people in any organization. Until a salesperson gets an order, nobody in the company has a job.
~ Chris Gardner
Due to enhanced freedom to police, the law and order situation in the state has improved.
~ J. Jayalalithaa
Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s, in the 1960s.
~ Michelle Alexander
I will continue to enforce all the laws, including illegal immigration. Nothing changes.
~ Joe Arpaio
Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.
~ Vladimir Putin
The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight
~ Benoît B. Mandelbrot
The hour is coming when, on the ruins of the old Christian order, a new order will be born that will indeed be an order of the world, the order of the Prince of this World, of that prince whose kingdom is of this world. And the hard law of necessity, stronger than any illusions, will then remove the very object for clerical pride so long maintained simply by conventions outlasting any belief. And the footsteps of beggars shall cause the earth to tremble once again.
~ bernanos georges ii
But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I said carefully, 'then there's no room left for magic. It's only when you're lost and frightened and in the dark that you call on the Gods, and they like us to call on them. It makes them feel powerful, and that's why they like us to live in chaos.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Penelope embarked on a campaign to lobby Giles for her return ti work, who still insisted she remain at home sit was the natural order of things going back to time immemorial: me hunter - you homemaker me breadwinner - you bread-maker me child maker - you child raiser
~ Bernardine Evaristo
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
~ Bertolt Brecht
What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
~ Bertolt Brecht
First the grub, then the morals.
~ Bertolt Brecht
THE POLICEMAN: I'm a policeman. I'm paid by those in charge to combat dissatisfaction.
~ Bertolt Brecht
The mechanism of the heavens was clearer, the mechanism of their courts was still murky. [Scene fourteen. English version by Charles Laughton.]
~ Bertolt Brecht
Where else are you going to get morality from, is what I say? Peace is just piggishness, it takes war to establish order.
~ Bertolt Brecht
jOrdnung ist heutzutage meistens dort, wo nichts ist. Es ist eine Mangelerscheinung.
~ Bertolt Brecht
What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.
~ Bertrand Russell
Maybe he concentrated on his immediate situation. It was African. It was horrible. But wherever mankind had gathered itself into a social order, the same things were happening. There was a mass of people with no humnaity to whom another mass referred: Why, they are naturally like that. They like to live in such filth. They have been doing it for centuries
~ Bessie Head