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Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order is an…

— David Brooks

The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced…

— Russell Kirk

If the foundation of a well-ordered society is a healthy, happy home, then the problem of lawlessness will not be solved by more laws…

— J. Spencer Kinard

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

— Abraham Maslow

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense…

— Walter Lippmann

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more…

— Edmund Burke

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue…

— Thomas Jefferson

A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It…

— Jean Vanier

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

— John le Carre

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

— Henry Adams