Old Order Quotes
20 quotes by 18 authors
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The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and…
— William James
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[P]art of people's concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn't holding and we're not quite yet to where we…
— Barack Obama
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What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.
— Jacques Attali
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Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is not…
— Walter Wink
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The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The tragedy is that many of us are living desperate Christian life. Sunday comes and we get some strength, and then we lose some on…
— Martyn
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I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones,…
— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
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Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.
— John Lydon
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The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate…
— Romola Garai
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Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly…
— Paulo Freire
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic…
— Boris Pasternak
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The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself:…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journalese is any old words in…
— Alan Brewer
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Speaking the truth and challenging the old order will only get you crucified or expelled from the Garden of Eden.
— Rev Richard Skaff
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It is Margaret Thatcher's fault...Inspired by busy little demons, she slashed and burnt her way through the old order. Sentiment was given short shrift, as…
— Stephen Bayley
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He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of…
— Bible
Who Wrote These Old Order Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 20 Old Order Quotes as follows: