Circumstances Quote by Anonymous

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

— Douglas MacArthur

Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

— Theodore Dalrymple

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

— Ludwig von Mises

There is nothing so difficult or so dangerous as to undertake to change the order of things.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

— John Stuart Blackie

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity…

— Georges Bataille

There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.

— Louise Erdrich

Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

— Walter Benjamin

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules.

— Bernard Madoff

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

— Baruch Spinoza

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

— Rudolf Arnheim