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Quotes About Chaos

If the world has a mind then it's all worse than we thought.
~ Cormac McCarthy
How these things end. In confusion and curses and blood.
~ Cormac McCarthy
To be bad is good not simply because it subverts the language of the dominant white culture but also because it imposes a unique kind of order for young black men on their own distinctive chaos and solicits an attention that makes others pull back with some trepidation. This young black male style is a form of self-identification and resistance in a hostile culture; it also is an instance of machismo identity ready for violent encounters.
~ Cornel West
Since the end of the postwar economic boom, certain strategies have been intensified to stimulate consumption, especially strategies aimed at American youth that project sexual activity as instant fulfillment and violence as the locus of machismo identity. This market activity has contributed greatly to the disorientation and confusion of American youth, and those with less education and fewer opportunities bear the brunt of this cultural chaos.
~ Cornel West
When in problem, or in doubt, run in cirles, scream and shout
~ Cory Doctorow
Art?k hiçbir insan ve doÄŸa yasas? kalmam??t?. Y?k?l?p gitmiÅŸti dünya.
~ Curzio Malaparte
Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
~ Cyril Connolly
The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best.
~ D. H. Lawrence
If you admit a unison, you forfeit all the possibilities of chaos...Love is a direction which excludes all other directions. It is a freedom together, if you like.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Well, get used to it, the whole world is nuts.
~ Wally Lamb
That's often the case, of course—that creation and madness begin to dance with each other.
~ Wally Lamb
Life is messy, violent, confusing, and hopeful.
~ Wally Lamb
Bifurcation occurs when the environment of a potentially chaotic system destabilizes due to stress over time, or to some inciting disturbance, explosive or catastrophic. When perturbation occurs, an attractor draws the trajectories of the disturbance and, at the point of transition, the system bifurcates and is propelled to a new order of self-organization, or else it disintegrates.
~ Wally Lamb
Every passion borders on chaos, that of the collector on the chaos of memory.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Seen and unseen, the great and the unknown tumbled together in a writhing heap as the bow plunged deeper and the stern rose higher.
~ Walter Lord
A man who is already insane was frightening enough, but when he goes crazy...
~ Walter Mosley
Techno-anarcho-terrorism
~ Walter Mosley
Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large," my host said formally. He sat in the swivel chair and leaned back. "What does that mean exactly?" "What do you think it means?" "That you plan to overthrow the government in hopes of causing a perpetual state of chaos throughout the world?" "They aren't much on reality at Xavier or Columbia, are they?
~ Walter Mosley
On one foggy, misty night, King ordered the air groups from the Lexington and Saratoga to launch simultaneously well after sunset. The chaos was predictable but, in King's mind, instructional.
~ Walter R. Borneman
If anyone in this shithole city gave two tugs of a dead dog's cock about Truth, this wouldn't be happening.
~ Warren Ellis
Flows of shit» , muttered Bat, «I'd go insane, listening to that all day. It's just a river of 'Hey, this crazy, disgusting thing just happened, and hey, here's another one, and another, and another, has your brain caught fire yet?' It's like disaster porn or something.
~ Warren Ellis
Predicting causes litter.
~ Warren Ellis
Authority in the world is being increasingly undermined until at the end all authorities will be overthrown and lawlessness shall rule.
~ Watchman Nee
If you are going to be calm in the midst of chaos, there's something you must stop doing. When life gets difficult, when it feels as though you are being squeezed by the pressures all around you, you must refuse to panic. Jesus was not telling His disciples they were not
~ Wayne A Mack