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Quotes About Order

Your Fish Speakers aren't an army, they're a police force." "By my name, I assure you that's not so. Police are inevitably corrupted.
~ Frank Herbert
The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem," Kynes said, "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, a flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses.
~ 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. —BENE GESSERIT TEACHING
~ Frank Herbert
But the universe would not turn backward. It was a great engine projected upon the grey void of nonexistence. His knife, if it brought the deaths of the twins, would only reverberate against that void, weaving new complexities to echo through human history, creating new surges of chaos, inviting humankind to attempt other forms of order and disorder.
~ Frank Herbert
Peace has only one meaning in this Imperium. It's the maintenance of a single way of life.
~ Frank Herbert
O civilizaÈ›ie se întemeiaz?, în cea mai mare parte, pe laÈ™itate. Este atât de uÈ™or s? civilizezi propov?duind laÈ™itatea. Diluezi factorii care ar putea încuraja cutezanÈ›a. Limitezi exercitarea voinÈ›ei. Egalizezi apetiturile. Îngr?deÈ™ti orizonturile. Decretezi o lege pentru fiecare miÈ™care. Negi existenÈ›a haosului. Îi înveÈ›i pân? È™i pe copii s? respire domol. ÎmblânzeÈ™ti.
~ Frank Herbert
Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.
~ Frank Herbert
Não se pode fundamentar a política no amor. As pessoas não se interessam pelo amor: é desordenado demais. Elas preferem o despotismo. O excesso de liberdade engendra o caos. Não podemos permitir isso, podemos? E como transformar o despotismo em algo que se possa amar?
~ 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. We can't have that, can we? And how do you make despotism lovable?
~ Frank Herbert
Oamenii o duc cel mai bine când fiecare îÈ™i are locul s?u, când fiecare È™tie ce reprezint? el în rânduiala lucrurilor È™i ce poate înf?ptui. Distruge acest loc È™i vei distruge individul.
~ Frank Herbert
That's the main job of cops in New York, telling everyone move back.
~ Frank McCourt
Carl Page had his own idea about how to go about it. He posited that procedures contained in Robert's Rules of Order, a late-nineteenth-century manual for running effective meetings, could provide the basis for building AI.
~ Franklin Foer
Four Bigloo Igloos," ordered Chet, when the waitress came over. "But there are only three of you, sir," the waitress protested. "Four sundaes, miss," Chet repeated grandly. "Never fear—we shall dispose of them!" The waitress shrugged and went off. The place was filled with people on their lunch hour, and there was a lively hubbub. A juke box was playing continuously
~ Franklin W. Dixon
One does not have to believe everything is true, one only has to believe it is necessary.' 'Depressing thought,' K. said. 'It makes the lie fundamental to world order.
~ Franz Kafka
Z k?amstwa robi si? istot? porz?dku ?wiata.
~ Franz Kafka
if you want to run a clean house, you'll have to start by giving me notice.
~ Franz Kafka
It may be possible, I would not know, for a man who has conquered chaos to begin to write; those will be holy books. Or begin to love; that will be love, not fear of chaos...Not until the world has been ordered does the writer begin.
~ Franz Kafka
Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
~ Aleister Crowley
Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies - at least by trying to learn to love them, and by believing that it is right to do so. With grace this is possible.
~ Michael O'Brien
All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the 'Lord God.'
~ Isaac Newton
We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.
~ Ted Cruz
Joe Satriani is a methodical, and structured, kind of guy - thank God for that.
~ Michael Anthony
Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
~ Jack Dempsey
Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.
~ Mo Ibrahim