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"The very idea that there should be a certain class of people who give orders by virtue of their ownership of wealth and another huge class who take on orders and follow them because of their lack of access to wealth and power, that's unacceptable. So, sure it should be abolished."
"We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders."
"As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries in opposition, and have remained revolutionaries in power. To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order which crucifies him. And this problem can only be solved by blood and iron."
"Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul."
"We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable."
"Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps."
"The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it."
"How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician."
"Order and creativity are complementary."
"Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense."
"On any Tuesday morning, if asked, a good working scientist will tell you with some self-satisfaction that the affairs of his field are nicely in order, that things are finally looking clear and making sense, and all is well. But come back again on another Tuesday, and the roof may have just fallen in on his life's work."
"In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard."
"We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics."
"The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality."
"But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees."
"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."
"So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral."
"In order to achieve goals you have not achieved before you have to become someone you haven't been before."
"In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it."
"Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows."
