Quotes About Order

But they say that sexuality can be dangerously Dionysian. Nowhere do we need order more than at any orgy.

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order

It is only when we live in accordance with the rule of God that our life is set in order," he declared a decade later; "apart from this ordering, there is nothing in human life but confusion.

Morris tried to keep the books in some sort of order, but they always mixed themselves up. The tragedies needed cheering up and would visit with the comedies. The encyclopedias, weary of facts, would relax with the comic books and fictions. All in all it was an agreeable jumble.

And that is the terrible myth of organized society, that everything that's done through the established system is legal -- and that word has a powerful psychological impact. It makes people believe that there is an order to life, and an order to a system, and that a person that goes through this order and is convicted, has gotten all that is due him. And therefore society can turn its conscience off, and look to other things and other times.

The law's not about justice. It's a system we've put in place because we can't have justice.

Nothing is more beautiful than an organized width, and nothing is worse than an unorganized lapidary.

All effort to bring order into disorder is disorder.

Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.

It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order.

Paradoxically, the flows of energy that sustain complex things (including you and me) are helping entropy with its bleak task of slowly breaking down all forms of order and structure.

Without the rule of law there could be no safety and no progress: if you created something, somebody else might just take it away because they wanted it.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order

Police are bureaucrats with weapons.

Can you pretend to show any such similarity between the fabric of a house and the generation of a universe? Have you ever seen Nature in any such situation as resembles the first arrangement of the elements? Have worlds ever been formed under your eye, and have you had leisure to observe the whole progress of the phenomenon, from the first appearance of order to its final consummation? If you have, then cite your experience and deliver your theory.

An ideal system, arranged of itself, without a precedent design, is not a whit more explicable than a material one which attains its order in a like manner; nor is there any more difficulty in the latter supposition than in the former.

L]iberty is the perfection of civil society; but still authority must be acknowledged essential to its very existence...

Democracies are turbulent. . . . Aristocracies are better adapted for peace and order, and accordingly were most admired by ancient writers; but they are jealous and oppressive.

Belief doesn't consists in any special nature or order of ideas ·because the imagination has no limits with respect to those·, but rather in the manner of their conception and in their feeling to the mind. [...] In philosophy we can go no further than to assert that belief is something felt by the mind that distinguishes the ideas of the judgment from the fictions of the imagination.

De la ley nace la seguridad; de la seguridad, la curiosidad, y de la curiosidad, el saber. (...) En la necesaria marcha de las cosas, el derecho debe preceder a la ciencia

Awal zaan resto jahan. First yourself, then the universe.

It is a basic principle of Third Reich foreign policy only to tackle one thing at a time.

But, as Uri Geller seemed to demonstrate, certain talented individuals might possess "volitional control" such that they could impose some order on the usually random quantum motions. Some

Freedom is at root a natural, ultimately God-centered, personal act of love, even as love properly understood is a natural, ultimately God-centered, personal order of truth. Freedom and truth are therefore united in what is at once an act and an order of love.