“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.”

“A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such a pseudo-faith is ultimately bound to ruin itself because of the paralysis which the lack of a healthy growing science imposes upon it.”

Norbert Wiener book The Human Use of Human Beings

“The Peace and Beauty of any Society is Dependent Upon Justice and Honesty at all Levels.”

Mirza Masroor Ahmad (1950) spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

“In order to be transmuted into knowledge, every perception is and must be ordered and organized into categories. The extent, however, to which we can organize and express our experience in such conceptual forms is, in turn, dependent upon the frames of reference which happen to be available at a given historical moment. The concepts which we have and the universe of discourse in which we move, together with the directions in which they tend to elaborate themselves, are dependent largely upon the historical-social situation of the intellectually active and responsible members of the group.”

Karl Mannheim (1893–1947) Hungarian sociologist

“Generosity, when once she is set forward, knows not how to stop her progress; as her beauty is of that order which grows the more engaging upon nearer acquaintance.”
Nescit enim semel incitata liberalitas stare, cuius pulchritudinem usus ipse commendat.

Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer

“The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice

“Like the disposition of planes, the proportion of these planes and their colors seemed to depend only upon chance, and I declared that these works were ordered 'according to the law of chance', just like in the order of nature.”

Hans Arp (1886–1966) Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist

“It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits than to say that our lives depend upon our opinions, which is only now and then true.”

Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) British writer and theologian

“To be with child does not diminish beauty, but changes the shape of beauty.”

Edmund Cooper book A Far Sunset

“And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change -- that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America