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

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

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

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

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

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

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

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

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

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

—  Theodore Adorno, 1903-1969, German philosopher

Alexandre DumasOrder is the key to all problems.

—  Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer

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

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

—  Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist

José SaramagoChaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.

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

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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

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

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

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

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

Nicolas Gomez DavilaLeveling is the barbaric replacement of order.

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

Latin Quotes

New 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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