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Quotes About Order

C'est cette distinction entre la liberté et l'anarchie que beaucoup de parents ne saisissent pas. Dans le foyer discipliné, les enfants n'ont aucun droit. Dans le foyer désordonné ils les ont tous. Le foyer équilibré est celui où les enfants et les adultes ont des droits égaux. C'est la même chose en ce qui concerne l'école. (p. 150)
~ A.S. Neill
There is order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge.
~ Aaron Sorkin
When impure, man is moving dangerously towards evil. The protecting angels desert him. He is no longer permitted to pray, to recite the Quran, to touch the sacred Book, even to enter a mosque. He is no longer safe. Purification is a security technique. One should resort to it as soon as possible in order to reestablish the disturbed order and to chase away the shaytans (devils), which, as we have seen, lie in wait for the slightest show of weakness.
~ Abdelwahab Bouhdiba
I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion.
~ Abigail Adams
Every State-formation, every assertion of the power of the magistrate, every mechanical means of compelling order and of guaranteeing a safe course of life is therefore always something unnatural;
~ Abraham Kuyper
Love so strong, without ebb and flow or crests and troughs, indeed lacking any sort of motion so that it had become invisible to him these seven years, part of the order of things outside his head which he had taken for granted.
~ Abraham Verghese
I am forced to render some order to the events of my life, to say it began here, and then because of this, that happened, and this is how the end connects to the beginning, and so here I am.
~ Abraham Verghese
The chaos and hurt in God's world are unfathomable mysteries, yet the Bible shows her that there is order beneath. As her father would say, "Faith is to know the pattern is there, even though none is visible.
~ Abraham Verghese
Desolation, destruction, annihilation was the order of the day between two peoples who should have been living in harmony under the same ruler.
~ Adalbert Stifter
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
~ Adam Clayton Jr. Powell
A naprzód id? dworscy urz?dnicy: Ten w futrze ciep?em, lecz na wpó? odkrytem, Aby widziano jego krzy?ów cztery; Zmarznie, lecz wszystkim poka?e ordery,(...).
~ Adam Mickiewicz
The language of the King James Bible is the language of patriarchy, of an instructed order, of richness as a form of beauty, of authority as a form of good; the New English Bible is motivated by the opposite, an anxiety not to bore or intimidate. It is driven, in other words, by the desire to please and, in that way, is a form of language which has died.
~ Adam Nicolson
unlike Virgil, Homer is no part of the classical age, has no truck with judicious distinction or the calm management of life and society. He precedes that order, is a preclassic, immoderate, uncompromising, never sacrificing truth for grace.
~ Adam Nicolson
Let me get this straight," I say. "You're practically ordering me to die. What kind of guidance counselor are you?
~ Adam Selzer
You can't ask questions like that. Everything has to be done in the right order, or the whole narrative falls to pieces. One thing has to follow another. You can't skip over anything or move things along faster. One step at a time.
~ Adèle Geras
Do we still live in a world where being polite keeps order or does it leave you vulnerable?
~ Adele Parks
I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war - never mind whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterward whether he told the truth or not. Instarting and waging a war it is not right that matters, but victory . . . Eighty million people must obtain what is their right . . . The stronger man is right . . . Whoever has pondered over this world order knows that its meaning lies in the success of the best by means of force . . .
~ Adolf Hitler
I learned much from the Order of the Jesuits.
~ Adolf Hitler
If the Marxist teaching were to be accepted as the foundation of the life of the universe, it would lead to the disappearance of all order that is conceivable to the human mind. And thus the adoption of such a law would provoke chaos in the structure of the greatest organism that we know, with the result that the inhabitants of this earthly planet would finally disappear.
~ Adolf Hitler
Order and security became more important than a political freedom and that was synonymous with violence and bloodshed. Hitler saw these problems and spoke directly to people's fears and desires. The German people wanted a strong leader to solve their problems, a leader who could return their national self-respect.
~ Adolf Hitler
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
~ Adrienne Rich
I'm a military brat; my mother's a pastor. There's been a lot of order in my life that I don't have control over, that I just dedicate myself to.
~ Jonathan Majors
I learned how important it is to have a home that's in order - that's peaceful.
~ Chris Bosh
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero