John Ruskin Quotes

It's about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.

You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Liberty is a product of order.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism.

Order is power.

I was the law and order.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.

There is no king where there is no law.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe.

No group in any sector can go anywhere without rules.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

Discipline must be maintained.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

Order and system are nobler things than power.