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Quotes About Order

A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.
~ Unknown
What they wanted to establish was a system of "People's Law," where the government is kept under the control of the people and political power is maintained at the balanced center with enough government to maintain security, justice, and good order, but not enough government to abuse the people. The
~ Unknown
How can he, when, after stopping his machine to adjust it because it was making only defective product, the foreman comes and along and orders him in two words, "Run it". In other words, "Make defective product.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Law, says the judge as he looks down his nose,Speaking clearly and most severely,Law is as I've told you before,Law is as you know I suppose,Law is but let me explain it once more,Law is The Law.
~ W. H. Auden
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish to bewail it senseless.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
You have accused me of upsetting order by my free drinks, and I have showed you that there is a more dreadful fermentation in the Sermon on the Mount than in my beer-barrels. Christ thought it in the irresponsibility of His omnipotence.
~ W.B. Yeats
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance's pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, dance, dance till you drop.
~ W.H. Auden
Nature and Passion are powerful, but they are also full of grief. True happiness would have the calm and order of bourgeois routine without its utilitarian ignobility and boredom.
~ W.H. Auden
Il mare è in effetti quel barbarico stato di indistinzione e disordine da cui è emersa la civiltà e nel quale è sempre possibile che essa ricada, ove non venga salvata dagli sforzi degli dèi e degli uomini. (Gl'irati flutti)
~ W.H. Auden
Auden Letter to Lord Byron Banker or Landlord, booking clerk or pope, Whenever he's lost faith in choice and port, Whenever man sees the future without hope Whenever he endorses Hobbes report, The life of man is nasty, brutish, short, The Dragon rises from his garden border, And promises to set up Law and Order.
~ W.H. Auden
The songs celebrates the order of the nature. When the scene is nice, the emotion are nasty, when the scene is nasty, the emotion are nice.
~ W.H. Auden
I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here
~ W.S. Merwin
In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.
~ Sue Kaufman
Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Chance was just an order that you hadn't yet perceived.
~ Richard Powers, Orfeo
Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation.
~ Arthur Levitt Jr
Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.
~ Swami Vivekananda
El sexo es lo que desordena nuestras vidas normalmente ordenadas.
~ Philip Roth
Some cooks prepare their meals and leave a big mess for later, but the way of zen is to clean as you go.
~ Philip Toshio Sudo
AS ANDREW GREELEY SAID, If one wishes to eliminate uncertainty, tension, confusion and disorder from one's life, there is no point  in getting mixed up either with Yahweh or with Jesus of Nazareth.7-9 I grew up expecting that a relationship with God would bring order, certainty, and a calm rationality to life. Instead, I have discovered that living in faith involves much dynamic tension.
~ Philip Yancey
I have overturned the order. Nothing will ever be the same for any woman in this country again.
~ Philippa Gregory
We are making a new order," he said. "A new world. There is talk of the end of the authority of the Pope, the map of France and Spain is being redrawn. Everything is changing, and here we are, at the very front of the change.
~ Philippa Gregory
C'est encore à partir du centre et non de l'extérieur que je peux ordonner. Si je ne fais que me conformer à une idée, aussi sublime soit-elle, cela signifie que quelque part existe la violence qui en est le corollaire, car se conformer n'implique-t-il pas déformer ? (p.250)
~ Unknown
The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
~ Plato