Order Quotes

Use force with children, and reason with men. Such is the natural order. The wise man does not need laws.[Employez la force avec les curante et la raison avec les hommes; tel est l’ordre naturel: le sage n’a pas besoin de lois.]

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

You should beware of men who take their orders from the gods.

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.[Non è cosa più difficile a trattare, nè più dubbia a riuscire, nè più pericolosa a maneggiare, che farsi capo ad introdurre nuovi ordini.]

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

The only mistake that a man invested with authority and power cannot make even once in his lifetime is to issue an order which he is not sure will be carried out.[El único error que no puede cometer ni una sola vez en toda su vida un hombre investido de autoridad y mando es impartir una orden que no esté seguro de que será cumplida.]

Taking the term in its strict sense, there never has existed, and never will exist, any true democracy. It is contrary to the natural order that the majority should govern and that the minority should be governed.[A prendre le terme dans la rigueur de l’acception, il n’a jamais existé de véritable démocratie, et il n’en existera jamais. Il est contre l’ordre naturel que le grand nombre gouverne et que le petit soit gouverné.]

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject — the actual enemy is the unknown.

Nothing out of its place is good, nothing in its place is bad.

Method and order, they are everything.

It is a dainty thing to command, though it were but a flock of sheep.[translation by John Willis Clark]It’s a good thing to be in command, if it’s only over a drove of cattle.[translation by John Ormsby][Es bueno mandar, aunque sea a un hato de ganado.]

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.