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Order Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with…
- The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry…
- If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so:…
- In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with…
- I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my…
- The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.
- You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you…
- Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in…
- Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
- In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.
- In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement.…
- …the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead,…
- Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel…
- One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in…
- Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said…
- I think that in order to know love one must make a mistake and then correct it.
- Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.
- In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.
- I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think…
More Order Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to… — Frank Abagnale
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of… — Jane Austen
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila