Quotes about Order
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
— Herbert Hoover
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.
— Peter Marshall
The kingdom is not some place that our souls are taken away to when we die. It is, instead, an order that comes to earth--right here among us who call ourselves daughters and sons of God.
— Shane Claiborne
The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.
— Jurgen Habermas
You see, when a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations - to try to impose some order on the chaos, and make sense out of that which seems senseless.
— Barack Obama
The men in the painting, the groundskeepers in the garden—they were guardians, I thought, the quiet priests of a good and solemn order. And I would tell myself that I needed to work as hard and take as much care in my job as they did in theirs.
— Barack Obama
Work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.
— Barack Obama
When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order." "If that is our nature, then nature is madness. These are more dangerous times than we ever have known."
— Barbara Kingsolver
I suppose it is in our nature," she said finally. "When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order." "If that is our nature, then nature is madness.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Our home is a place of fun, relaxation, learning, friends, growth, and order, to develop ourselves into the kinds of people who can contribute to the world.
— Stephen Covey
It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.
— Confucius
What we perceive, when things fall apart, is no longer the stage and settings of habitable order. It's the eternal watery tohu va bohu, formless emptiness, and the tehom, the abyss, to speak biblically—the chaos forever lurking beneath our thin surfaces of security.
— Jordan Peterson