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Quotes About Order

No. This is stuff that is from the first half of the alphabet. But I'm not completely consistent. Sometimes I go by the first name and sometimes by the second, then forget which I've done.
~ Unknown
For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Plagues reshape our familiar social order, require us to disperse and live apart, wreck economies, replace trust with fear and suspicion, invite some to blame others for their predicament, embolden liars, and cause grief. But plagues also elicit kindness, cooperation, sacrifice, and ingenuity.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
Thirty million bricks were needed for the project, of which two and a half million had already been ordered.
~ Unknown
Addressed to the entire British fleet,
~ Unknown
the first said simply: 'General chase, south-east.' The second said: 'Prepare for battle.
~ Unknown
The wind was coming mostly from the south. Villeneuve gave the order to sail at 6 a.m.
~ Unknown
the new order promised stability, where for years there had been only chaos.
~ Unknown
there always have been and always will be men who wish to dominate women, the peculiar iniquity of religion is to turn misogyny into a part of the divine order: to make sexism a virtue and equality a sin.
~ Nick Cohen
Evil was amongst us, defying the Emperor's rule of order. And I served the Emperor. I always have. I always will. It is my oath. It is the thunder and the lightning.
~ Unknown
Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Relativism is the solution of one who is incapable of putting things in order.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
In society just as in the soul, when hierarchies abdicate the appetites rule.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Leveling is the barbarian's substitute for order.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Classifying is the first step toward understanding; persisting in classifying is the first step toward confusion.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Man emerges from the beast when he orders his instincts hierarchically.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The only indices of civilization are the clarity, lucidity, order, good manners of everyday prose.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Im Universum gibt es Inseln der Ordnung. Aber die angebliche Ordnung des Universums ist ein ideologisches Artefakt.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Order is a deception. But disorder is not a solution.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The modern mentality does not conceive that order can be imposed without resorting to police regulations.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Order paralyzes. Disorder convulses. Inscribing an instituted disorder within an all-inclusive order was the miracle of feudalism.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
If liberty is to last, it should be the goal of social organization and not the starting point.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Every rebellion against the order of man is noble, so long as it does not disguise rebelliousness against the order of the world.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Das Universum ist nicht System, das heißt: logischer Zusammenhang. Sondern heirarchische Struktur von Paradoxen.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila