Quotes About Order

For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion. Wherefore, matters should be so ordered that when men no longer believe of their own accord, they may be compelled to believe by force.

Virtue gives birth to tranquillity, tranquillity to leisure, leisure to disorder, disorder to ruin... and similarly from ruin, order is born, from order virtue, from virtue, glory and good fortune.

The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new.

For he who quells disorder by a very few signal examples will in the end be more merciful than he who from too great leniency permits things to take their course and so to result in rapine and bloodshed; for these hurt the whole State, whereas the severities of the Prince injure individuals only.

a prince, so long as he keeps his subjects united and loyal, ought not to mind the reproach of cruelty; because with a few examples he will be more merciful than those who, through too much mercy, allow disorders to arise, from which follow murders or robberies; for these are wont to injure the whole people, whilst those executions which originate with a prince offend the individual only.

que no debemos dejar nacer un desorden para evitar una guerra, pues acabamos no evitándola, y sólo la diferimos, lo que redunda a la postre en perjuicio nuestro.

And although one should not reason about Moses, as he was a mere executor of things that had been ordered for him by God, nonetheless he should be admired if only for that grace which made him deserving of speaking with God.

And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.

I have mountains of the blue Neutrogena makeup wipes in the bottom of the cabinet in my bathroom. It is all you see. We order them by the caseload.

I'm not a multilateralist against anybody. I'm a multilateralist because I believe in a multilateral order.

My mum loved housework, she basically had OCD.

My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip the order.

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

We have to be a nation of laws.

There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

Capitalism is not merely a system for the efficient production and distribution of goods and services; it also incarnates and promotes a particular moral order , an institutionalized normative worldview comprising and fostering particular assumptions, narratives, commitments, beliefs, values, and goals.

As nearly all on the Death Star had been ordered to do, with their own eyes or on a screen, Iden had stood and watched. By their treasonous actions, the rebels on Alderaan had brought destruction not only on themselves, but on the innocents they always seemed so keen to protect. She

Lady Vereesa, Lady Sylvanas—you are ordered to report to His Majesty, the king, at once." The two sisters looked at each other. "Something you did?" Vereesa asked—not as an accusation, but as a simple question. Sylvanas wasn't angry; it was a reasonable assumption.

If Amy had one ounce of romance in her soul, she would be sighing with gratification. Instead, she said acerbically, "All that's missing is the love poem." Jermyn deposited her in a chair by the table. "I'll order a pen and ink for you.

I have to plan things. That's my personality. If I don't have a plan, I get overwhelmed.

Disorder keeps increasing if things are left to themselves.