Order

Order is a great persons need and their true well being. – Henri Frederic Amiel

However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself. – Antonin Artaud

The order of the world is always right — such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin. – Jean Baudrillard

Good order is the foundation of all great things. – Edmund Burke

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. – Denis Diderot

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty. – Will Durant

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. – Jane Jacobs

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. – George Mikes

There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline. – Michel de Montaigne

Despite crimes omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium. – Camille Anna Paglia

Order is Heavens first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king. – Alexander Pope

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time. – Salvatore Satta