Quotes on Order

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder

Part of people's concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn't holding and we're not quite yet to where we need to be in terms of a new order that's based on a different set of principles, that's based on a sense of common humanity, that's based on economies that work for all people.

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money.

I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one's home or the peace of one's mind.

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.

...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?

If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.

I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.

Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.

...you're on this earth with a divine purpose: to rise to the level of your highest creative possibility, expressing all that you are intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, and physically in order to make the universe a more beautiful place.

I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity.

We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples. We have got to have the ugly facts in order to protect us from the official view of reality. Otherwise, we are squeezed empty and filled with what other people want us to think and feel and experience.

Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we can do without.

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.