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Quotes About Order

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
~ John Berger
We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.
~ Robert Heilbroner
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
~ Aristotle
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
~ James F. Cooper
Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation
~ Julian Burnside
It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.
~ Gideon Welles
Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.
~ Maurice Druon
The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.
~ Thomas Sowell
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.
~ Benjamin Hart
As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.
~ R. H. Tawney
Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.
~ Jeffrey Tucker
Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.
~ Cherie Blair
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.
~ Ignatius of Loyola
It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
~ Hans Kung
Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Unless we hear very strictly with great faith to the order of our Spiritual Master, we will not understand what is the mercy of Krishna and how it is coming upon us.
~ Radhanath Swami
He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Remember the order of life. Sometimes we forget how it was intended to be.
~ Jean Williams
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
~ Bill Veeck
The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.
~ Neville Cardus
There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.
~ Vince Lombardi