Quotes About Chaos

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Em período de convulsões generalizadas, um país onde seja preservada a autoridade doméstica fica em boa posição para explorar o caos dos Estados vizinhos em benefício de objetivos internacionais mais elevados.

If the Emperor strayed from the path of virtue, All Under Heaven would fall into chaos. Even natural catastrophes might signify that disharmony had beset the universe. The existing dynasty would be seen to have lost the "Mandate of Heaven" by which it possessed the right to govern: rebellions would break out, and a new dynasty would restore the Great Harmony of the universe.19

Pokud Ã…â"¢ádu nelze dosáhnout obecnou shodou ani jej vnutit silou, pak nelze jinak než jej za cenu katastrof a nelidskostí ukout ze zkuÅ¡enosti chaosu.

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men: your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.

The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

Bright, dreadful flashes of lightning rent the darkness and Kali's reply was drowned by a peal of thunder which shook heaven and the wilderness. Simultaneously a whirlwind broke out, tugged the boughs of the tree swept away in the twinkling of an eye the camp-fire, seized the embers, still burning under the ashes, and carried them with sheaves of sparks into the jungle.

It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go in, would not come out, but turned in the same groove without catching hold, and it was impossible to stop turning it.

The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote

hydra of revolution,

Quos vult perdere dementat [Those whom (God) wishes to destroy he drives mad].

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad.

we all talked at the same time, not listening to one another, sometimes seconding and praising one another in order to be seconded and praised in turn, sometimes getting angry with one another—just as in a lunatic asylum.

Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house.

You will see war not as a beautiful, orderly, and gleaming formation, with music and beaten drums, streaming banners and generals on prancing horses, but war in its authentic expression - as blood suffering and death.

The mob is terrible—disgusting," he said to himself in French. "They are like wolves whom nothing but flesh can appease.

As a criminal led out to execution knows that he is about to die, yet still looks around and straightens the hat he has put on askew, so Moscow involuntarily went on with her usual life, though she knew that the time of her destruction was near, when all the conventions of life, which people were accustomed to obey, would be broken.

Frankincense allows us to remain focused on the tasks at hand by keeping us calm, cool and collected when chaos is all around us.

Revolutions are always verbose.

The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...

I'm planning a catastrophe.