Quotes
Quotes about Order
China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.
The part of our social order which can or ought to be made a conscious product of human reason is only a small part of all the forces of society.
Justice is incidental to law and order.
Even more significant of the inherent weakness of the collectivist theories is the extraordinary paradox that from the assertion that society is in some sense more than merely the aggregate of all individuals their adherents regularly pass by a sort of intellectual somersault to the thesis that in order that the coherence of this larger entity be safeguarded it must be subjected to conscious control, that is, to the control of what in the last resort must be an individual mind. It thus comes about that in practice it is regularly the theoretical collectivist who extols individual reason and demands that all forces of society be made subject to the direction of a single mastermind, while it is the individualist who recognizes the limitations of the powers of individual reason and consequently advocates freedom as a means for the fullest development of the powers of the interindividual process.
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast--your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.
Docendo discimus Teach in order to learn
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason...But we ask in all things a reason must be sought.
Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact. Many grown-ups will obstinately persist, if only now and then, in composing small strings of sentences in their heads and achieving at least momentary logic. This probably cannot be prevented, but we have learned how to minimize the consequences by arranging that such grown-ups will be unable to pursue that logic very far. If they were at home in the technology of writing, there's no telling how much social disorder they would cause by thinking things out at length.Our schools have chosen to cut this danger off as close to the root as possible, thus taking measures to preclude not only the birth of thought but its conception. They give the pill to even the youngest children, but just to be on the safe side, they give it to everybody else, too, especially all would-be schoolteachers.
The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.
The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.
The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and regularity in things than it really finds.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself. â¢Michel De Montaigne Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. â¢Jean Rostand I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. â¢George Bernard Shaw It is better to be quotable than to be honest. â¢Tom Stoppard Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. â¢Orson Welles Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. [Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas.]
As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be a vocation for the rebel.
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
