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Quotes About Order

Peace, peace, peace. Peace is organized.
~ Eddie Izzard
One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order.
~ Robert Kennedy
Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.
~ Winston Churchill
The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
~ Plato, The Republic
The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.
~ Frederick Lenz
From the beginning philosophy sought for The order behind the disorder Thales sipped cheap wine And in this did divine: "Why it's nothing at all but pure water!"
~ Rebecca Goldstein
Chaos is the law of nature, order is the dream of man...
~ Anonymous
A strong person knows how to keep their life in order. Even with tears in their eyes, they still manage to say 'I'm grateful' with a smile.
~ Steven Cuoco
The real beauty of life is in orderliness.
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Hope with deep driving desires is an order of the most delicious delicacy in a restaurant we call the universe.
~ Debasish Mridha M.D.
Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.
~ I. A. Richards
Poetry contains nothing haphazard.
~ William Empson
All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.
~ Paul Engle
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose - words in their best order poetry - the best words in their best order.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.
~ Russell Kirk
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
~ John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
~ Barry Goldwater
The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)
~ Augustine of Hippo
It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.
~ Aldous Huxley
British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.
~ William Randolph Hearst
You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.
~ Frank Herbert
I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and courage. This is a call to arms.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt