Pastoral Resources

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.

And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create our own little world in order to survive the one we're in.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that.

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.