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Quotes About Order

Enthusiasm. Order: self-organization. Think in terms of others' interests. Questions. Key issue. Silence: listen. Sincerity: deserve confidence. Knowledge of my business. Appreciation and praise. Smile: happiness. Remember names and faces. Service and prospecting. Closing the sale: action.
~ Frank Bettger
The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realise about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses. The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late. That's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.
~ Frank Herbert
Law is the ultimate science.
~ Frank Herbert
You can't build politics on love, he said. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.
~ Frank Herbert
Things could not be forever ordered and formulated. He had to find the rhythm of change and see between the changes to the changing itself.
~ Frank Herbert
People want order, this kind or some other. They sit in the prison of their hungers and see that war has become the sport of the rich. That's a dangerous form of sophistication. It's disorderly.
~ Frank Herbert
Our civilization appears to've fallen so deeply into the habit of invasion that we cannot even obey a simple order of the Imperium without the old ways cropping up.
~ Frank Herbert
The limit of the law is the limit of enforcement—the real limit of organized society.
~ Frank Herbert
A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, a flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses. The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late. That's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.
~ Frank Herbert
QUESTION: Who governs the governors? ANSWER: Entropy.
~ Frank Herbert
Humans live best when each has his place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.
~ Frank Herbert
People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos. We can't have that, can we? And how do you make despotism lovable?
~ Frank Herbert
Indeed, it was the Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order.
~ Frank Herbert
All of them, she thought, an entire culture trained to military order. What a priceless thing is here for an outcast Duke!
~ Frank Herbert
the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even
~ Frank Herbert
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as raw material from which to create order. That was the Mentat approach, giving no unalterable truths but a remarkable lever for decision-making: orderly assemblage of data in a non-discrete system.
~ Frank Herbert
The more control, the more that requires control. This is the road to chaos. — PanSpechi aphorism
~ Frank Herbert
Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order. And how does that help us against these disorderly women who hunt us? What branch of evolution are they? Is evolution just another name for God?
~ Frank Herbert
What is justice? Two forces collide. Each may have the right in his own sphere. And here's where an Emperor commands orderly solutions. Those collisions he cannot prevent—he solves." "How?" "In the simplest way: he decides." "Keeping his friends and destroying his enemies.
~ Frank Herbert
He was reminded that the more he ordered the weather controlled, the more there was that required control. Absolutes only brought him closer to vagaries.
~ Frank Herbert
The Duke felt in this moment that his own dearest dream was to end all class distinctions and never again think of deadly order.
~ Frank Herbert
Ljudi najbolje žive kad svatko ima svoje mjesto, kad svatko zna kamo spada u shemi sustava i što može posti?i. Uništi to mjesto i uništio si osobu.
~ Frank Herbert
Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things.
~ Frank Herbert
The human quest for this interdependent order and our niche within it represents a profound necessity. The quest can, however, be perverted into a conservative grip on sameness. This has always proved deadly for the entire system.
~ Frank Herbert