Quotes About Order

Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive

There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.

There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.

Those who fear men like laws.

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

Man is a hybrid. From a lower order we have been genetically manipulated by advanced intelligences into what we are. Now that in itself is dynamite for god's sake.

Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.

And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?

Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

There are three types of intelligence. The intelligence of man, the intelligence of animals and the intelligence of the military. In that order.

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.

It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.

God improvises. Man systematizes.

The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.

What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.