Jose Maria Aznar Quotes

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

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

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

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.

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.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

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

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.

Better a hundred years of tyranny than one day of anarchy.

There is no king where there is no law.

Liberty unregulated by law becomes anarchy.

We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.

The rules are there for a reason.

Freedom is not a license for chaos.

Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.

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

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in democracy, you have chaos.

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

I was the law and order.

Today there's law and order in everything. You can't beat anybody for nothing. If you do beat anyone, it's got to be for the sake of order.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.