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Quotes About Order

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
~ William Irwin Thompson
It's like a mathematical law, Grace.
~ Paul Auster
But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos.
~ Frederick Lenz
When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.
~ George Iles
Science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Stability, " insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.
~ Aldous Huxley
The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.
~ Jose Mujica
The Jesuits…are a secret society – a sort of Masonic order – with superadded features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous.
~ Samuel Morse
A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.
~ John Rawls
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
~ Orson Welles
In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
~ Kamisese Mara
No social stability without individual stability.
~ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.
~ Marcel Proust
The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
~ John Perry Barlow
A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.
~ George F. Kennan
Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people.
~ John Adams
Rigidity of order is the artefact and sediment of the human agents ' freedom.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
The ultimate concept in Greek philosophy is the idea of cosmos, of order; the first teaching in the Bible is the idea of creation. Translated into eternal principles, cosmos means fate, while creation means freedom. The essential meaning of creation is not the idea that the universe was created at a particular moment in time. The essential meaning of creation is, as Maimonides explained, the idea that the universe did not come about by necessity but as a result of freedom.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Advancement—improvement in condition—is the order of things in a society of equals.
~ Abraham Lincoln
in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might chuse to impress upon it. If those two principles coincide and act in the same direction, the game of human society will go on easily and harmoniously, and is very likely to be happy and successful. If they are opposite or different, the game will go on miserably, and the society must be at all times in the highest degree of disorder.
~ Adam Smith
Neither anarchy, nor tyranny, my people. Worship the Mean, I urge you, shore it up with reverence and never banish terror from the gates, not outright.
~ Aeschylus
The country of the blind has ordered mirrors Its one-eyed king's vision is now prime for time
~ Agha Shahid Ali