Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
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When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
But that, in shutting out the light of day, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker, I knew equally well. And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
God created us to rule, to lead and use all His riches to establish His order
The standards of this new time are forcing us to put our lives in order before God
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season.
i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.
Order is Heaven's first law.
Our laws make law impossible our liberties destroy all freedom our property is organized robbery our morality an impudent hypocrisy our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes our power wielded by cowards and weaklings and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
Have a place for everything and have everything in its place.
Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong.
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody anywhere anytime.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.
Large organization is loose organization. Nay it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
Set thine house in order.