Order Quotes - page 6

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. (Thomas Paine)
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. View quote
William Hazlitt
Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image. View quote
Blaise Pascal
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. View quote
William Ellery Channing
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. View quote
Freda Adler
Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it. View quote
Georg Büchner
Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees. View quote
Karel Čapek
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree. View quote
Alexander Pope
I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity. (Jonathan Ive)
Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed. View quote
Edmund Burke
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. View quote
Robert Frost
There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected. View quote
Madeleine Albright
The motivation for war is simple. The U. S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U. S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich. View quote
Michael Moore
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery. View quote
Karen Blixen
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare. View quote
Samuel Johnson
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. View quote
Jean Genet
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present. View quote
Antonin Artaud
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder. View quote
Paul Ricœur
We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another. (John le Carré)
Justice is merely incidental to law and order. View quote
J. Edgar Hoover
One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to be taken by man in order to sustain human life. View quote
Morarji Desai
They order, said I, this matter better in France. View quote
Laurence Sterne
The dominant social thought shapes the institutionalized order of society... and the malfunctioning of established institutions in turn alters social thought. View quote
Theodore Schultz