Quotes About Order

Order it wrong and choice is oppressive; order it right and its liberating.

You don't know anything,' she said. 'If you knew one thing about this life you would not think it was so funny.' Yvette put her hands on her hips. She shook her head slowly. 'Darlin,' she said. 'Life did take its gift back from yu and me in de diffren order, dat's all. Truth to tell, funny is all me got lef wid. An yu, darlin, all yu got lef is paperwork.

I move we get more wine,' Alistair said. 'What does the panel think?'... It was obvious that the entire war could be solved in this way. The trick would be to reach for a corkscrew instead, every time some brass hat ordered artillery.

But a surprise victor in a bitterly divided presidential election, at the head of a new political party, would upset the old order of things, and redefine the nature of the presidency.

No, if divisions were bananas, the First would be second, and the Second would be top.

He had a reputation for clearing his desk of every file before leaving every day. Without a haystack, he felt, you can't lose any needles.

Die Glocke reißt Gedankengänge ab in der Schulstunde, schneidet Plaudereien in der Pause auseinander, trennt Freundinnen im Garten, macht Herzklopfen vor unangenehmen Schulstunden, reißt einem die Tasse vom Mund beim Frühstück. Die Glocke ist Befehl. Unpersönlicher, gnadenloser, ewig gleichbleibender Ordner eines ereignislosen Daseins.

Ordnung! Ja! Ordentlich ist heute die Welt. Aber sagen Sie mir: Ist sie noch schön?

If I say "yes" won't this change the order of the world?

If you're disorganized, you risk losing everything.

wage an ongoing war with the elements...we have to push back against the unruly outdoors to keep chaos at bay.

To police is not to conquer, to police is to remind people there are rules that if followed benefit all.

arrived veiled, as compared to 639 the previous fall. Chirac ordered that the hundredth anniversary

The anarchist movement is filled with people who are less interested in overthrowing the existing oppressive social order than with washing their hands of it.

Thoroughgoing social revolutions, even if contained in a single country, are a profound threat to the international capitalist order. Every such revolution that has not been crushed internally has had to face some degree of foreign military intervention.

Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.

Physicists, irrespective of their belief, may invoke God when they feel issues of principle are at stake because the God of the physicists is cosmic order.

Fear of this order is not an emotion. It is like a virus overwhelming every cell of his body, while his mind struggles to remain clear.

Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something they thought they had irretrievably lost.

the wave of priest killing that occurred once the military coup had collapsed public order, was entirely unprecedented.

a tendency uncritically to accept the prevailing "order", and to view the evidence of financial corruption and political clientelism as inalterable,

The Republican authorities could not initially prevent extra-judicial killing in their territory because the military coup itself had completely collapsed the police and army as the instruments of public order while it had also generated a huge surge of fear and anger. But the regime subsequently rebuilt public order – not least to put an end to murder.

the rule of law.

The fascist Falangist or clerical Carlist militia and other volunteers of the right could at any time have been disciplined by the military authorities that underwrote public order from the beginning. Not only did this not happen, but instead the military actively recruited thousands of civilian vigilantes to carry out a dirty war.11