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Quotes About Chaos

Revolutions come in two stages: the bit where everything gets smashed and the bit where you have to build it again. The first is great fun; the second is so very hard.
~ Nick Harkaway
Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear in many parts of the world.
~ Rudy Giuliani
I know I have to live up to the hype wherever I go. If I'm an inch below the standard, it'll be chaos.
~ Jameis Winston
Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
~ Patrick Ness
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
~ Aldous Huxley
Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.
~ C. S. Lewis
Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.
~ Dan Brown
All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.
~ Alan Moore
Man's the bad child of the universe
~ James Oppenheim
The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.
~ William S. Burroughs
Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.
~ William Shakespeare
If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.
~ Felix Frankfurter
The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.
~ Andrew Potter
Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!
~ Charlie Flynn
Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.
~ Dan Abnett
The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.
~ George R. R. Martin
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
~ Terence McKenna
Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
~ Terence McKenna
Visions of the entire Krusty Krab burning to the ground flashed through SpongeBob's fevered brain. If SpongeBob
~ Terry Collins
When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.
~ Terry Goodkind
The light of reason and civilization was virtually snuffed out by the Barbarian hordes who swarmed across Europe, annihilating everything the Romans had put in place, sacking Rome itself and consigning Europe to the Dark Ages. The Barbarians brought only chaos and ignorance, until the Renaissance rekindled the fires of Roman learning and art. It's a familiar story, but it's codswallop.
~ Terry Jones
The ocean tosses up a thousand arms to embrace the storm that falls across her like a drunken sailor. His thunder slaps her thighs, his lighting piercing her waters. They pound me between the hips and I begin to panic, knowing their passion will destroy me.
~ Terry Moore