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Will DurantCivilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

—  Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher

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Will DurantWhen liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

—  Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher

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AristotleLaw is order, and good law is good order.

—  Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

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Will DurantIn 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

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Theodore RooseveltOrder without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

—  Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909]

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Pierre-Joseph ProudhonLiberty, not the daughter but the mother of Order.

—  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1809-1865, French anarchist

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Alfred North WhiteheadThe art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

—  Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician

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Jean-Luc GodardA story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

—  Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director

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Henry MillerConfusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

—  Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer

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John MiltonOrder from disorder sprung.

—  John Milton, 1608-1674, English poet

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Frank HerbertOrder 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

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Theodore AdornoThe task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

—  Theodore Adorno, 1903-1969, German philosopher

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Le CorbusierTo create architecture is to create order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

—  Le Corbusier, 1887-1965, Swiss-French architect

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Nicolas Gomez DavilaIn society just as in the soul, when hierarchies abdicate, the appetites rule.

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

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Charles BukowskiShow 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.

—  Charles Bukowski, 1920-1994, American writer

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Odysseas ElytisWhen you hear "order", human flesh smells.

—  Odysseas Elytis, 1911-1996, Greek poet, Nobel 1979

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Gustave FlaubertBe regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

—  Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer

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Terry PratchettChaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

—  Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer

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Alexandre DumasOrder is the key to all problems.

—  Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer

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Arthur KoestlerWherever 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.

—  Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer

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Ashleigh BrilliantThe closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

—  Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-2025, British cartoonist & epigrammatist

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José SaramagoChaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.

—  José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998]

     (The Double)

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Gottfried LeibnitzThere is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

—  Gottfried Leibnitz, 1646-1716, German philosopher & mathematician

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Nicolas Gomez DavilaHierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

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Nicolas Gomez DavilaRelativism is the explanation of one who is incapable of putting things in order.

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

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Nicolas Gomez DavilaLeveling is the barbaric replacement of order.

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

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Latin Quotes

special sourceNew order of the ages.

Novus ordo seclorum.

—  motto on the Great Seal of the United States

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Quotes in Verse

Wallace StevensA violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.
These two things are one.

—  Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet

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Ancient Greek

DemocritusThose 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

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XenophonOrder is generally believed to save [in battle], while disorder has destroyed many.

Η μεν ευταξία σώζειν δοκεί, η δε αταξία πολλούς ήδη απολώλεκε.

—  Xenophon, 430-355 BC, Ancient Greek soldier & historian

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AristotleNothing given by nature is without order.

Ουδέν άτακτον των φύσει.

—  Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

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