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Quotations
 | Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 40 likes |
| When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 12 likes |
 | Law is order, and good law is good order. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 10 likes |
| In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 8 likes |
 | Liberty, not the daughter but the mother of Order. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1809-1865, French anarchist 7 likes |
 | The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 6 likes |
 | Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. — Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909] 6 likes |
 | A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. — Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director 5 likes |
 | Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 3 likes |
 | Order from disorder sprung. — John Milton, 1608-1674, English poet 3 likes |
 | Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order. — Frank Herbert, 1920-1986, American sci-fi writer 2 likes |
 | In society just as in the soul, when hierarchies abdicate, the appetites rule. |
 | Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. |
 | When you hear "order", human flesh smells. |
 | Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work. |
 | Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized. |
 | The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. |
 | Order is the key to all problems. |
 | Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas. |
 | The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] (The Double) |
 | There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance. — Gottfried Leibnitz, 1646-1716, German philosopher & mathematician |
| Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal. |
| Relativism is the explanation of one who is incapable of putting things in order. |
| Leveling is the barbaric replacement of order. |
Latin Quotes
 | New order of the ages. Novus ordo seclorum. — motto on the Great Seal of the United States 11 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 4 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Those with a well-ordered character will have a well-ordered life too. Οίσιν ο τρόπος εστίν εύτακτος, τούτοισι και ο βίος συντέτακται. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 11 likes |
