Sri Aurobindo Quotes

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

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.

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

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

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

Disorder is the child of authority and compulsion. Liberty is the mother of order.

Better 100 years of tyranny than one day of anarchy.

The real need of the day is ... moral and spiritual rearmament ... God's Living Spirit can transcend conflicting political systems, can reconcile order and freedom, can rekindle true patriotism, can unite all citizens in the service of the nation, and all nations in the service of mankind.

A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs.

War and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

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

Without government institutions, what would the anarchists have to anarchy about?

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of his own accord bring rhythm again into the chaos.

At the end of the day, one of the biggest misconceptions of Ghost is that it's just about the devil. It's always been about mankind and living.

A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

Liberty, Not the Daughter but the Mother of Order.

Everybody is God. Everybody is the devil. And if you don't realize you have both parts, that's what really causes problems.

God made nightButMan made darkness.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.