Affair Quote by Robertson Davies

By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have…

— Adam Weishaupt

Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that…

— Solon

“Like any wise ruler, Abbot Arkos did not issue orders vainly, when to disobey was possible and to enforce was not possible. It was…

— Walter M. Miller Jr

“What all Greek philosophers, no matter how opposed to polis life, took for granted is that freedom is exclusively located in the political realm,…

— Hannah Arendt

The desire for order is the only order in the world.

— Georges Duhamel

“A conscious effort has to be made to sustain laws, customs, procedures and manners, otherwise the social order would quickly collapse.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Orders…I was familiar with both giving and having them followed. The key was to always issue them to someone who would obey. Not to…

— Ella Frank

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

— George Bernard Shaw

Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.

— Joseph Pilates

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

— Theodore Dalrymple

One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't have our…

— Rebecca Goldstein