Order Quotes

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.

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

Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.