#order

I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict. ↗

— Witold Pilecki

#arrested #ask #carried #deciding #had

Order is what exists before you start arranging things. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#chaos #order #beauty

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#administrative #color #course #fire #fit

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#build #clients #i #order

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape. ↗

— Mary Richards

#am #charged #desert #fire #follow

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#childhood #disorder #labeled #labeling #leads

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#first #know #must #order #ourselves

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. ↗

— Simone Weil

#itself #life #mutilate #need #order

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

— Marcel Duchamp

#conforming #contradict #forced #i #my own

You don't manifest dreams without taking chances. ↗