#order

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#before #better #clumsy #enemy #force

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

#amusing #because #bit #constructed #copied

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#how #know #must #order #profession

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#bad #either #good #itself #makes

As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#increases #order #speeds #time #up

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#consent #gain #greatness #must #often

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#oneself #order #ought #party #remain

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#demolish #discovered #had #hypothesis #must

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it. ↗

— Johnny Rotten

#get #old #order #rid

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#escape #ever #every #every man #fire