Quotes About Chaos

All effort to bring order into disorder is disorder.

holding people responsible. People born into the most chaotic situations can still be asked the same questions: Are you living for short-term pleasure or long-term good? Are you living for yourself or for your children? Do you have the freedom of self-control or are you in bondage to your desires? The Cost of Relativism, NYT article 3/10/15

And as things fell apart, nobody paid any attention.

Things fall apart, it's scientific.

For two days, Welch outlined the danger at hand. Communist Party membership in the United States had expanded eightfold in the past two decades. (That was unlikely.) The Reds had a secret plan to devalue the dollar to cause economic collapse and societal chaos. The communists were sneaky bastards, he noted. They tended not to use force. They subverted their targets, creeping into political parties, churches, schools, labor unions, other institutions, and governments and

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. (William Lee-Naked Lunch)

Even, he argued, if we are all rational enough to understand that it's in our long-term interest to live in peace and security, our short-term interests are often such that killing and plundering are the most obviously profitable courses to take, and all it takes is a few to cast aside their scruples to create utter insecurity and chaos.

To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos,' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.

My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.

And while the body is confined to one planet, along which it creeps with pain and difficulty; the thought can in an instant transport us into the most distant regions of the universe; or even beyond the universe, into the unbounded chaos, where nature is supposed to lie in total confusion. What never was seen, or heard or, may yet be conceived; not is any thing beyond the power of thought, except what implies as absolute contradiction.

We have reached the point where multi-millions of people are taking to the streets around the world to protest at their economic plight as the gap between rich and poor becomes a chasm as (calculated) chaos in the financial system has been used as the (calculated) excuse for the biggest transfer of wealth from the many to the few, from poor to rich, from masses to elite, in known human history.

I tell yeh, Bright-eyes. Men and women? A bloody mess. Every time.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad." (Euripides)

Lies as a way of creating chaos and confusion. Lies as an alternative to violence.

Kira was on her way, unhinged on top of everything else.

Violence can command respect. Violence can silence and intimidate, and ward off risks and threats. But violence can also cause chaos and a whole chain of unwanted consequences.

Anarchy is not chaos, but order with out control.

God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.

I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it.

What a comfort it is to feel that amid the chaos and anarchy which sweep the surface, God is holding fast the foundations on which we build.

Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.

The more people marginalize the true God of the Bible the more chaotic things become.

Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy.