Quotes About Order

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.

It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.

I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

A government of laws, and not of men

The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

Let me get this straight," I say. "You're practically ordering me to die. What kind of guidance counselor are you?

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

If you are doing things in order to be happy...you're doing them in the wrong order.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

It's more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony and abundance are the natural order of things.

My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.